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Overview
About Keysight
At Keysight, we help companies address their toughest challenges with precision and confidence. Our customers sit at the center of everything we do and we enable them to bring breakthrough technologies to life.
Within Semiconductor Infrastructure Solutions (SIS), we co‑innovate with leading semiconductor equipment customers to deliver next-generation metrology systems that enable continued advancement of Moore’s Law. SIS’s core differentiator is high-precision laser interferometry. Our displacement- and position-measuring interferometer systems deliver the sub-nanometer accuracy that lithography and wafer-inspection tools depend on to control stage position.
These systems are integrated directly into scanners and metrology platforms from customers, enabling the overlay accuracy and throughput required at the most advanced semiconductor process nodes in the world.
Responsibilities
The Role
As an R&D Integrating Manager, you will lead a team of R&D managers and engineers while serving as the critical integration point across development, customer programs, and operations.
You will translate product and technology direction into executable plans, ensuring alignment across teams and delivering complex, customer-driven development programs with strong performance and predictability. This role combines deep technical expertise with execution leadership, ensuring system-level performance and readiness from concept through NPI and into production.
Much of this work centers around displacement metrology subsystems that span laser sources, precision optics, optomechanical stages, and real-time signal-processing electronics and innovation in these and adjacent areas.
Why This Role Matters
This role sits at the center of SIS execution—ensuring that complex, cross-functional, customer-driven development efforts translate into real, delivered outcomes. You will play a critical role in enabling the organization to scale innovation while maintaining the performance and reliability required by the world’s leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
At SIS, that includes the interferometry-based position and displacement metrology systems that power next-generation lithography scanners at customers where nanometer-level precision directly influences chip yield and the pace of Moore’s Law.
What You Will Do
Translate Strategy into Execution
Convert product and technology direction into clear development plans, priorities, and milestones
Align teams around what must be delivered, when, and at what level of performance
Make trade-offs across scope, timeline, and technical complexity to maintain delivery commitments
Integrate Across Functions
Act as the integration point across R&D, marketing, NPI, manufacturing, and adjacent teams
Ensure strong alignment in areas where breakdowns typically occur:
requirements to design to production readiness
custom solutions to scalable platforms development timelines to customer commitments
Drive end-to-end accountability for program execution, not just functional success
Execute Customer-Funded Development Programs
Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to execute co-development programs
Ensure clarity on requirements, specifications, and success criteria
Deliver on-time, in-spec outcomes while maintaining strong customer confidence
Drive Execution Discipline & Predictability
Improve delivery predictability and program health across development efforts
Reduce late-stage surprises through clear milestones, early risk identification, and decisive action
Strengthen transitions from development to NPI to production
Lead and Develop a High-Performing Organization
Lead a team of 2–3 R&D managers and 35–40 engineers and scientists across lasers, optics, optomechanics, and electronics
Drive accountability for outcomes, not just activity
Strengthen technical capability while building a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
What Success Looks Like
Consistent delivery of on-time, high-quality development outcomes
Strong alignment across teams, with fewer breakdowns at development-to-production transitions
Improved predictability of execution, with reduced escalations and recovery cycles
Sustained confidence from key customers in SIS’s ability to deliver complex programs reliably
A high-performing team with clear ownership, strong bench strength, and retained critical talent
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field required
Experience
5+ years delivering complex product development programs as a program manager or R&D leader
Experience managing teams of 25+, including multiple managers
5+ years in semiconductor equipment or related high-tech R&D environments
Strong familiarity with laser interferometry or precision optical metrology (e.g., displacement- or position-measuring interferometers, stage metrology, or lithography/wafer-inspection sub-systems) preferred
Experience in adjacent markets where similar solutions/technologies can be applied will be a plus.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in complex, global settings
Capabilities
Customer Orientation: Develops and maintains a strong understanding of customers’ technology roadmaps and strategic priorities to help align R&D investments with future market need, enabling effective customer engagement and supporting long-term business growth
Systems Thinking: Strong ability to manage system-level performance, integration, and trade-offs
Execution Leadership: Drives clarity, accountability, and predictable delivery in complex environments
Decision-Making: Makes timely, informed decisions in ambiguous and high-pressure situations
People Leadership: Develops managers and builds engaged, high-performing teams
Collaboration: Works effectively across functions, geographies, and disciplines
Additional Requirements
Experience working across global teams and time zones
Willingness to travel (~10%)
Must be based in the Bay Area with U.S. citizenship or permanent residency
Careers Privacy Statement
***Keysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.***
The level of role will be based on applicable experience, education and skills; Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed below.
California pay range: MIN $201,790.00, MIDPOINT $269,050.00 - MAX $336,320.00
Note:
For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region
This role is eligible for our Keysight Results Bonus Program
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)
Responsibilities
The Role
As an R&D Integrating Manager, you will lead a team of R&D managers and engineers while serving as the critical integration point across development, customer programs, and operations.
You will translate product and technology direction into executable plans, ensuring alignment across teams and delivering complex, customer-driven development programs with strong performance and predictability. This role combines deep technical expertise with execution leadership, ensuring system-level performance and readiness from concept through NPI and into production.
Much of this work centers around displacement metrology subsystems that span laser sources, precision optics, optomechanical stages, and real-time signal-processing electronics and innovation in these and adjacent areas.
Why This Role Matters
This role sits at the center of SIS execution—ensuring that complex, cross-functional, customer-driven development efforts translate into real, delivered outcomes. You will play a critical role in enabling the organization to scale innovation while maintaining the performance and reliability required by the world’s leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
At SIS, that includes the interferometry-based position and displacement metrology systems that power next-generation lithography scanners at customers where nanometer-level precision directly influences chip yield and the pace of Moore’s Law.
What You Will Do
Translate Strategy into Execution
Convert product and technology direction into clear development plans, priorities, and milestones
Align teams around what must be delivered, when, and at what level of performance
Make trade-offs across scope, timeline, and technical complexity to maintain delivery commitments
Integrate Across Functions
Act as the integration point across R&D, marketing, NPI, manufacturing, and adjacent teams
Ensure strong alignment in areas where breakdowns typically occur:
requirements to design to production readiness
custom solutions to scalable platforms development timelines to customer commitments
Drive end-to-end accountability for program execution, not just functional success
Execute Customer-Funded Development Programs
Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to execute co-development programs
Ensure clarity on requirements, specifications, and success criteria
Deliver on-time, in-spec outcomes while maintaining strong customer confidence
Drive Execution Discipline & Predictability
Improve delivery predictability and program health across development efforts
Reduce late-stage surprises through clear milestones, early risk identification, and decisive action
Strengthen transitions from development to NPI to production
Lead and Develop a High-Performing Organization
Lead a team of 2–3 R&D managers and 35–40 engineers and scientists across lasers, optics, optomechanics, and electronics
Drive accountability for outcomes, not just activity
Strengthen technical capability while building a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
What Success Looks Like
Consistent delivery of on-time, high-quality development outcomes
Strong alignment across teams, with fewer breakdowns at development-to-production transitions
Improved predictability of execution, with reduced escalations and recovery cycles
Sustained confidence from key customers in SIS’s ability to deliver complex programs reliably
A high-performing team with clear ownership, strong bench strength, and retained critical talent
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field required
Experience
5+ years delivering complex product development programs as a program manager or R&D leader
Experience managing teams of 25+, including multiple managers
5+ years in semiconductor equipment or related high-tech R&D environments
Strong familiarity with laser interferometry or precision optical metrology (e.g., displacement- or position-measuring interferometers, stage metrology, or lithography/wafer-inspection sub-systems) preferred
Experience in adjacent markets where similar solutions/technologies can be applied will be a plus.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in complex, global settings
Capabilities
Customer Orientation: Develops and maintains a strong understanding of customers’ technology roadmaps and strategic priorities to help align R&D investments with future market need, enabling effective customer engagement and supporting long-term business growth
Systems Thinking: Strong ability to manage system-level performance, integration, and trade-offs
Execution Leadership: Drives clarity, accountability, and predictable delivery in complex environments
Decision-Making: Makes timely, informed decisions in ambiguous and high-pressure situations
People Leadership: Develops managers and builds engaged, high-performing teams
Collaboration: Works effectively across functions, geographies, and disciplines
Additional Requirements
Experience working across global teams and time zones
Willingness to travel (~10%)
Must be based in the Bay Area with U.S. citizenship or permanent residency
Careers Privacy Statement
***Keysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.***
The level of role will be based on applicable experience, education and skills; Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed below.
California pay range: MIN $201,790.00, MIDPOINT $269,050.00 - MAX $336,320.00
Note:
For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region
This role is eligible for our Keysight Results Bonus Program
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)
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