R&D Operating Manager

Overview

Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.

At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture.Learn more about our benefits.

Responsibilities

Role summary

Lead an R&D engineering team responsible for enterprise test solutions, test software, manufacturing automation, and related engineering support. The Operating Manager is responsible for delivering projects and organizational objectives established by leadership, developing employees, managing resources and priorities, and ensuring effective execution across engineering and operations partners.

The role requires enough technical depth to understand engineering tradeoffs and guide the team.

Key responsibilities

• People and organization leadership
• Manage, develop, coach, and retain a team of software engineers and technical contributors.
• Set employee objectives and provide ongoing feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Support talent reviews, succession planning, recognition, promotions, and development of technical leaders.
• Recruit and onboard employees and contractors as needed.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering team.
• Engineering execution
• Translate organization priorities and technical direction into executable team plans.
• Manage engineering schedules, resources, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure projects meet technical, quality, schedule, and manufacturing-readiness requirements.
• Escalate resource, technical, or organizational issues when necessary.
• Test engineering and software
• Lead development and deployment of enterprise test solutions supporting engineering and operations.
• Drive improvements in test time, test effectiveness, maintainability, scalability, and reuse.
• Support common test architectures, tools, and software-development practices established by technical and organizational leadership.
• Encourage reuse of existing test IP rather than development of isolated product-specific solutions.
• Support adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and modern software practices where appropriate.
• Engineering governance
• Ensure team adherence to applicable engineering processes, product-development practices, cybersecurity requirements, and regulatory requirements.
• Help NPI engineering teams meet secure software requirements.
• Support secure software development practices including vulnerability scanning and other required product-security activities.

Required

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering management, technical leadership, or significant project leadership experience.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering projects and teams.
• Experience with automated test, test software, NPI, manufacturing engineering, or electronic test and measurement.
• Strong people-management skills including coaching, performance management, employee development, and hiring.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, resources, and dependencies simultaneously.
• Strong technical problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational and functional boundaries.

Preferred

• Software development experience with C#, C++, Python, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering and software-development tools.
• RF/microwave or electronic test-and-measurement experience.
• Experience with automated test systems and measurement science.
• Manufacturing/NPI experience.
• Familiarity with secure software development, vulnerability scanning, and product cybersecurity requirements.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. Candidates who now or at any point in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B Visa status) may not be considered.
• Santa Rosa, CA Pay Range: MIN $163,000.00 - MAX $273,000.00
• Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed above.
• Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region

US Employees may be eligible for the following benefits

Medical, dental and vision

Health Savings Account

• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life, Accident, Disability insurance
• Business Travel Accident and Business Travel Health

401(k) Plan

Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays

Paid Family Leave

Discounts, Perks

Tuition Reimbursement

Adoption Assistance

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

This position requires access to certain goods, software, technology, or technical data subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these laws and regulations, U.S. persons (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees) working for Keysight can access export-controlled items without authorization from the U.S. government. For any individual who is not a U.S. person, Keysight may need authorization from the U.S.

Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce, or other appropriate federal agency before the individual can access export-controlled items. Employment in this position for non-U.S. persons is contingent on Keysight’s ability to obtain any required government authorizations.

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