Product Engineering Manager - Mechanical

Keysight Technologies, Inc.•Santa Rosa, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Engineering Manager leads PMTC’s Product Engineering team at Keysight’s headquarters in Santa Rosa, California. The team’s Product Engineers each own a mechanical product family end-to-end, and the manager is accountable for product-level yield, product quality, and customer support across PMTC. The role calls for a hands-on leader who sets direction, develops people, drives results, communicates clearly, and works effectively with product lines, operations, process engineering, and cross-functional engineering teams. The manager facilitates technical discussions, resolves competing priorities, exercises sound judgment, and manages multiple demands in a fast-paced environment. The Precision Meso-scale Technology Center (PMTC) provides high-precision mechanical solutions for Keysight’s RF, microwave, mmWave, and 5G/6G solutions. Its products serve industries including AI infrastructure, communications, aerospace and defense, automotive and energy, and semiconductor measurement equipment. The manager hires and develops Product Engineers, establishes team responsibilities and NPI-to-production handoff criteria, and leads performance against yield and quality targets. The role ensures product conformance and consistent quality governance, serves as an escalation point for product lines and R&D, coordinates priorities across partner functions, builds product-family expertise, supports production OSP qualification, and provides DFM and inspectability feedback to R&D. The position requires access to items subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience.
At least 8 years of experience in precision machining or precision mechanical component manufacturing in a product, quality, manufacturing, or sustaining engineering role.
At least 3 years leading engineers or technical teams.
Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain engineers, set priorities, and hold a team accountable for results.
Working command of GD&T and knowledge of measuring machined features using CMM, optical measurement, and surface profilometry; ability to assess whether an inspection plan can verify drawing requirements.
Hands-on experience with structured problem-solving methods, including 8D, RCCA, DMAIC, and FMEA.
Comfort using yield and SPC data in Excel, Power BI, Minitab, or JMP to set priorities.
Customer-facing communication experience, including presenting quality events, root cause, and recovery plans to customers, program managers, or senior leaders.
Ownership mindset and ability to drive issues across functions to closure.
Must meet applicable U.S. export-control access authorization requirements; employment for non-U.S. persons is contingent on obtaining any required government authorizations.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

Hire, coach, and develop Product Engineers; set goals and performance expectations, and assign product families based on volume, complexity, and yield risk.
Define Product Engineering’s working relationship with Process Engineering and Integration Engineering, including ownership boundaries, NPI-to-production handoff exit criteria, and escalation paths.
Own yield and cost-of-poor-quality targets across product families, including first-pass yield, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality.
Review top losses with the team and ensure cross-process root-cause corrective action is led to closure when failures span multiple process blocks.
Ensure products conform to drawings, GD&T, and customer intent, including consistent NCM/MRB disposition, CAR/CAPA closure, ER/waiver and deviation governance, and SPC on critical-to-quality features with Process Engineering.
Serve as the escalation point for Keysight product lines and R&D on quality events, recovery plans, and delivery risk.
Ensure Product Engineers give early, factual notice when yield or quality may affect delivery.
Partner with operations, Process Engineering, Integration Engineering, and metrology to prioritize competing demands and balance yield recovery, delivery, and cost.
Build product-family knowledge and capability, including critical features, failure modes, approved waivers, and lessons learned; set the standard for production OSP qualification.
Provide DFM and inspectability feedback to Keysight R&D on new drawings and revision changes.
Report team results and risks to PMTC leadership.