Keysight Technologies, Inc

R&D Software Engineering Manager

Keysight Technologies, Inc • $167K — $279K *
Santa Rosa, CA 95403In-Person
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; Electrical Engineering background is a plus.
  • Proven track record of bringing products from concept to market.
  • Proficient in C/C++ for embedded firmware and modern JS frameworks like React or Angular.
  • Experience with cloud technologies and microservices architecture.
  • Familiar with containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
  • Demonstrated application of AI/ML techniques in product development.
  • Experience developing embedded software on Linux/Windows platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor an Agile engineering team, promoting innovation and secure coding practices.
  • Drive product strategy across web, mobile, desktop, and firmware development.
  • Champion customer-centric product backlog management for IoT and applications.
  • Own the telemetry and diagnostics platform strategy, ensuring lightweight data capture.
  • Collaborate with global teams to validate the platform and refine requirements.
  • Document storage formats and configuration interfaces for internal consistency.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, innovative environment.
  • Mentorship and professional development for early-career engineers.
  • Collaboration with global teams across various time zones.
  • Engagement in customer beta programs for real-world product validation.
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Responsibilities

Qualifications
  • Lead, mentor, and energize a young, Agile engineering team across software and firmware - fostering a culture that thrives on innovation, complex problem-solving, and writing secure, low-defect code.
  • Drive product strategy and technical direction across bespoke web, mobile, desktop, and firmware development, bridging software and hardware disciplines.
  • Champion customer centricity and commercial focus through a well-groomed product backlog spanning IoT, mobile, web, and desktop applications.
  • Own the strategy and execution of the instrument's telemetry and diagnostics platform - from on-device capture of configuration, health, and utilization data through aggregation and cloud/on-prem analytics - ensuring it stays lightweight and never interferes with customer-facing test workflows.
  • Partner with global service, standards, and analytics teams across time zones, and participate in customer beta programs, to validate the platform in the field, refine requirements, and keep data formats consistent as the product line evolves.
  • Document storage format, retrieval behavior, and configuration interfaces so internal consumers and standards owners can rely on consistent, deduplicated, schema-aligned records.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field - Electrical Engineering background a strong plus for understanding hardware/software interaction - or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proven experience bringing solutions to market from idea, concept, POC, to fully commercialized products.
  • Proficiency in C/C++ (or equivalent) for embedded/instrument firmware, combined with hands-on experience in React, Angular, or similar modern JS frameworks for building desktop, web, or mobile applications.
  • Experience with cloud technologies and microservices architecture.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) for deploying and scaling backend or analytics services.
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML techniques to product design, development, or tooling problems (e.g., anomaly detection on telemetry data, predictive health/utilization insights).
  • Experience developing embedded or instrument firmware/software on Linux and/or Windows-based platforms, including file-system and persistent-storage design under size and reliability constraints.
  • Passion for mentoring engineers in an Agile environment, developing early-career talent, and building a team culture around solving complex problems together.

Preferred Skills
  • Prior exposure to Keysight-specific (or equivalent) hardware interactions, test-and-measurement instruments, asset or calibration data flows, health/utilization monitoring, or instrument software architecture.
  • Working knowledge of SCPI and of keeping background telemetry activity from interfering with customer test programs.
  • Experience with configurable periodic tasks, power-up initialization sequences, and designing for data retention across offline intervals.
  • Familiarity with structured telemetry or logging formats (JSON or line-delimited records), log rotation, and schema-aligned data matching an external query interface.
  • UX/UI design sensibility for building desktop or web interfaces that present telemetry, asset, and health/utilization data clearly.
  • Experience with networked instrument environments (LAN, with awareness of GPIB/legacy connectivity constraints) and with agents or services that collect data from devices.
  • Ability to collaborate across firmware, systems software, cloud/on-prem analytics, and services organizations; clear written communication for standards-related interface definitions.
  • Prior exposure to Keysight-specific (or equivalent) hardware interactions, test-and-measurement instruments, asset or calibration data flows, health/utilization monitoring, or instrument software architecture.

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About Keysight Technologies, Inc

Keysight Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology company that helps its engineering, enterprise and service provider customers optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost. Keysight's solutions go where the electronic signal goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets.
Learn more about Keysight Technologies, Inc
Size
14,500 employees
Market Cap
$30.3 billion
Industry
Information Technology
Net Income
$636 million
Founded
1939
5 Year Trend
+11.2%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ
KEYS
* Ladders Estimates

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