Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), 5G/6G Wireless

Run the program execution of Keysight's 6G collaborations with the leading wireless chipset and device makers, so that every commitment Keysight makes to these customers lands on the date the customer's engineers need it. The role exists so that Keysight's on-site engineers spend their time in the customer's lab. The portfolio covers 6G research testbeds, pre-standard 6G test systems, protocol and physical-layer enablement, and demonstrations tied to the customer's development milestones, and it grows as the 6G programs ramp. The role is part of Keysight's customer-facing technical team for these accounts, within the Wireless organization. The engineering owners in R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support own the work; the program manager owns the plan, record, meetings, follow through, and the written recovery plan when a date does not hold. This is a role for someone who is relentless about documentation and tracking, who runs on data (every status is a number or a date with a source), and who sees around corners: anticipates what could go wrong and flags it early to the right leads. Responsibilities WHAT YOU WILL OWN The program record for every engagement, kept current daily: status, named owner, next customer milestone, and date, with a plain reason and a recovery plan on every item that is not on track. The plan of record for each engagement, managed to the customer's ready-to-use date, with Keysight's internal dates for shipment, installation, configuration, acceptance, and first measurements beneath it The program meetings, internal and customer-facing: the agenda, each action assigned to a person with a due date, and the follow-up to closure between meetings Commitments and risks across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support: anticipated before they surface, tracked to their dates, renegotiated in writing before a date passes, and escalated to Wireless leadership the same day a commitment is known to be at risk Readiness sign-off: no date or readiness claim reaches the customer until the program manager has reviewed the evidence behind it WHAT YOU WILL DELIVER A program plan per engagement, agreed with the customer's program counterparts and Keysight's R&D and planning owners within 90 days of start, refreshed at every milestone Meeting notes within one business day: decisions, owners, and dates A weekly written status: the situation, the implication, and the ask A monthly program readout: schedule performance against the plan of record, critical path, risks with owners, and a recommended course of action wherever the program is off plan A monthly quality report per customer: open issues by priority and age, turnaround against commitments, the trend, and the actions behind any line moving the wrong way A root cause and recovery plan on every missed customer milestone, written for an engineering executive audience WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE Customer milestones are met on the customer's dates Risks and slips are raised by the program manager, in writing, with the ask, before the customer or Keysight leadership raises them Every open engagement carries a current status, a named owner, a next milestone, and a date, at any point in time Plans, notes, status, and readouts are accepted by Wireless leadership at first review On-site engineers' time is customer and lab time; the program meetings and records run without them in the room Qualifications 8 or more years of technical, customer, or engineering program management in wireless, semiconductor, or test and measurement A record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs to completion through teams outside the program manager's own line, in a customer-facing environment Working knowledge of cellular systems: 4G and 5G today, the standards path to 6G, the modem and device development cycle, and how test equipment is deployed, accepted, and used in a customer's lab Fluency in program mechanics: plans of record, critical path, schedule trend against baseline, risk registers, recovery actions, and executive status reporting Relentless follow-through: asks the same owner for the same date until it is written down, and is comfortable being the person in the room who asks Rigor about evidence: checks what sits behind a date, a readiness claim, or a dependency rather than accepting it as reported Sees around corners: anticipates what could go wrong on a program before it does, and flags it to the right leads while there is still time to act Writing that stands on its own: notes, status, and readouts a senior engineering leader can act on at first reading Experience working directly with Director-level and above stakeholders, and the discretion to operate inside highly confidential development programs Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience Ability to travel to customer sites as the programs require Santa Clara, CA Pay Range: MIN $161,000.00 - MAX $268,000.00 Santa Rosa, CA and San Diego, CA MIN $146,000.00 - MAX $244,000.00