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

Keysight Technologies, Inc.•San Diego, FL

About The Position

The Senior Technical Program Manager runs execution of Keysight’s 6G collaborations with leading wireless chipset and device makers, ensuring customer commitments are delivered when customers’ engineers need them. The position is part of the customer-facing technical team for these accounts within the Wireless organization. Its portfolio includes 6G research testbeds, pre-standard 6G test systems, protocol and physical-layer enablement, and demonstrations aligned to customer development milestones. Engineering owners in R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support own the work. The program manager owns the program plan, records, meetings, follow-through, and written recovery plans when dates do not hold. The role requires disciplined documentation and tracking, data-supported status reporting, and early identification and escalation of risks. It also requires protecting on-site engineers’ time for work in customer labs by running program meetings and maintaining records without requiring their participation.

Requirements

At least 8 years of technical, customer, or engineering program management experience 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 reporting line in a customer-facing environment.
Working knowledge of cellular systems, including 4G and 5G, the standards path to 6G, the modem and device development cycle, and deployment, acceptance, and use of test equipment in customer labs.
Fluency in program practices, including plans of record, critical path, schedule trends against baseline, risk registers, recovery actions, and executive status reporting.
Strong follow-through, including securing written commitments and dates from owners and being comfortable asking for them directly.
Rigor in verifying evidence behind dates, readiness claims, and dependencies.
Ability to anticipate program risks and raise them to the appropriate leads early enough to act.
Ability to write clear notes, status reports, and readouts that senior engineering leaders can act on at first reading.
Experience working directly with Director-level and above stakeholders, with discretion to operate within 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 programs require.

Responsibilities

Keep a current daily program record for every engagement, including status, named owner, next customer milestone and date, and a clear reason and recovery plan for each item that is not on track.
Manage a plan of record for each engagement to the customer's ready-to-use date, with internal dates for shipment, installation, configuration, acceptance, and first measurements.
Run internal and customer-facing program meetings, including preparing agendas, assigning each action to an owner with a due date, and following up until closure.
Anticipate and track commitments and risks across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support; renegotiate dates in writing before they pass and escalate commitments at risk to Wireless leadership the same day they are identified.
Review supporting evidence before any date or readiness claim is communicated to the customer.
Agree on a program plan for each engagement with customer program counterparts and Keysight R&D and planning owners within 90 days of starting, and refresh it at every milestone.
Deliver meeting notes within one business day, documenting decisions, owners, and dates.
Provide a weekly written status covering the situation, its implications, and the ask.
Prepare a monthly program readout covering schedule performance against the plan of record, critical path, risks and owners, and recommended actions when the program is off plan.
Prepare a monthly quality report for each customer covering open issues by priority and age, turnaround against commitments, trends, and actions for adverse trends.
Write a root-cause analysis and recovery plan for every missed customer milestone for an engineering executive audience.