Engineering Manager, Aerospace Defense Custom Solutions

Overview

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.

Our award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.

Keysight Technologies is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a Signal Conditioning Components and Instruments (SCCI) team within our Aerospace Defense Customer Solutions (ADCS) organization.

This role is responsible for building and leading a cross disciplinary engineering team that designs, develops, delivers, and sustains custom hardware and software used across advanced aerospace and defense test and measurement systems, as well as standalone offerings.

The SCCI team will centrally own custom solutions and reusable platforms such as switch matrices, calibration modules, RF signal conditioning assemblies, PCAs, and associated firmware / software / FPGA programming, enabling greater reuse, quality, scalability, and faster system delivery.


Responsibilities

Technical & Platform Leadership

• Lead HW, RF, firmware, and software design to meet customer and system requirements, while optimizing for reuse, performance, and integration
• Lead team to establish technical requirements, architectures, interfaces, and test strategy
• Define and own multi-year platform roadmaps for custom components and subassemblies
• Ensure custom solutions and platforms meet requirements for measurement accuracy, reliability, scalability, cybersecurity, safety, regulatory, and export control

Execution & Delivery

• Drive design, development, qualification, and release of SCCI custom solutions and platforms
• Ensure predictable, on-time delivery aligned with ADCS system programs, customers, and business needs
• Balance near-term program support with long-term platform health
• Reduce custom rework by promoting modularity and reuse across programs

People & Organizational Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team (HW, RF, FW, SW)
• Set clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability within the SCCI team
• Mentor engineers and support technical career growth and specialization
• Foster a sustainable, high-performance engineering culture

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the primary interface between CC&S and:
  • Program / Project Management, Engineering (Systems, Software, Mechanical), Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Quality
• Own priorities and requirements for manufacturing operations, partnering closely with manufacturing management
• Establish a clear producer-consumer relationship with System and Software Engineering
• Support solution integration with robust documentation, interfaces, and engineering support

Business, Quality & Lifecycle Ownership

• Drive solution delivery, operating within a cost-disciplined model, to meet revenue and gross margin goals
• Reduce solution-level NRE through reuse and standardization
• Enable monetization of standalone component and instrument offerings
• Own quality metrics, sustaining engineering, and obsolescence management for SCCI instruments and components
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, product quality, and customer satisfaction across SCCI platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
• 8+ years of engineering experience in hardware, RF, FPGA, firmware, and/or software development
• Working knowledge of RF and test systems
• 3+ years of people or technical leadership experience
• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-disciplinary engineering solutions
• Strong system-level thinking with the ability to balance technical and business priorities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance and to meet ITAR requirements. You must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or lawful permanent resident) as defined by ITAR.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Experience in the Aerospace & Defense industry
• Experience working in a manufacturing and/or product development role
• Experience working directly with customers
• Program or Project management experience
• Business and finance experience
• Experience with Six Sigma and process improvement
• Familiarity with regulated or compliance driven environments (e.g., export control, quality systems)

Loveland, CO Salary Range: MIN $151,000.00 - MAX $253,000.00

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