Keysight Technologies, Inc

R&D Test and Design Validation Electrical Engineer

Keysight Technologies, Inc$138K — $231K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS / MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 8+ years in test engineering.
  • Extensive experience in automated test systems design and integration.
  • Strong collaboration skills across firmware, gateware, and hardware domains.
  • Proficient in test automation frameworks like C#, Python, and MATLAB.
  • Solid electrical engineering principles including analog design and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with design validation and environmental testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build automated test sets for validation and production.
  • Develop and maintain automated test software using modern tools.
  • Implement instrument control using SCPI and VISA/IO libraries.
  • Produce and maintain test setup documentation for quality assurance.
  • Troubleshoot hardware and software test failures collaboratively.
  • Plan and execute environmental tests for validation purposes.
  • Modernize legacy test systems to enhance maintainability.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with matching options.
  • 20 days of flexible time off and 12 paid holidays per year.
  • Tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance programs.
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan and perks.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer to design, build, and sustain automated test systems for high-power electronic test and measurement products. This role owns the full lifecycle of test set development: defining test concepts, architecting the measurement approach, selecting and integrating instruments/fixtures, writing and maintaining test code, and generating the documentation required to support production and quality systems. The role includes hands-on testing and automation of high-voltage, high-power power supply system's operating up to 2 kV and megawatt-class power levels.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design test sets / ATE solutions for design validation and production test.
  • Develop and maintain automated test software (test sequences, reusable libraries, drivers, and result handling) using modern frameworks and tooling.
  • Implement instrument control via standard T&M approaches: SCPI, VISA/IO libraries, and vendor drivers in common environments (Python, C#, LabVIEW, MATLAB, HTBasic, VBA).
  • Produce and maintain formal test setup/process documentation used to support production readiness and quality requirements.
  • Troubleshoot test failures across hardware and software: isolate issues in instruments, fixtures, wiring, DUT behavior, or code; implement corrective actions and robustness improvements.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with design engineering, manufacturing, and sustaining teams to ensure test coverage, throughput, reliability, and serviceability.
  • Plan and execute environmental testing to support design validation and qualification.
  • Drive modernization of legacy test systems (e.g., refactor/replace older test dependencies and improve maintainability).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • BS / MS EE (or equivalent) and 8+ years in test engineering with significant ownership of automated test systems.
  • Demonstrated experience in test set / ATE design, including integrating instruments, fixtures, and safety considerations.
  • Ability to collaborate across multiple design domains including firmware, gateware, analog and digital hardware interfaces to resolve test issues
  • Experience with modern test automation frameworks and/or sequencers, including plugin-based architectures (C#, Python, TAP, MATLAB, VBA, HTBasic). Be able to create code that is clear, efficient, maintainable, and well documented.
  • Strong software skills developing automated test code and architectures (e.g., modular test steps, data logging, result evaluation, maintainable codebase).
  • Strong experience with fundamental electrical engineering principles as it relates to design validation and issue troubleshooting. This includes a strong skill set in continuous time systems and analog design concepts.
  • Experience with design validation, firmware qualification, environmental test, production testing, and product manufacturing support.
  • Practical instrument control experience using SCPI and VISA/IO libraries, and familiarity with multi-language test ecosystems.
  • Ability to create rigorous measurement documentation (test path, equipment lists, measurement points, equations, uncertainties, and limit calculations).

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with production final test systems and documentation used for quality audits / compliance (e.g., ISO17025-style measurement uncertainty and traceability documentation).
  • Familiarity with designing PCBs and fixtures for high-power, high-current, or precision measurement applications.
  • Experience with regenerative power supplies, electronic loads, or grid-interactive test systems used in high-power test environments.
  • Experience using 3D modeling tools (e.g., NX, Creo, or equivalent) for designing test fixtures and lab hardware


Due to US visa restrictions, only candidates that can legally work in the US on a continuous basis without any type of sponsorship will be considered.

Pay is based on experience, education and skills, most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed below.

NJ pay range: MIN 138k- MAX 231k

Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region

This role is eligible for Keysight Results Bonus Program

Full-time 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 with matching options
  • 20 days Flexible Time Off per year, and 12 Paid Holidays
  • Paid Family Leave
  • Discounts, Perks
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Adoption Assistance
  • ESPP (Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
  • Opportunities to interact with some of the world's top engineers and scientists

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
Net Income
$636 million
Founded
1939
5 Year Trend
+11.2%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ

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