Senior Staff Project Technical Lead – Hardware

Keysight Technologies SAles Spain SL.; Paignton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight is seeking a Senior Staff Project Technical Lead - Hardware to provide technical leadership across complex hardware projects. You will guide decisions, align stakeholders, and drive design excellence from concept to end of life, balancing hardware constraints with system requirements.

The role blends hands-on development with strategic oversight. As a leader and individual contributor, you will coordinate with Product Management, Verification, and Operations to ensure successful product

Qualifications

• Honours degree in Electronic Engineering or similar, with strong academic record.
• Extensive experience in leading hardware projects and delivering complex designs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to cross-functional hardware teams across the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate with Product Management and Verification teams to align requirements and validation.
• Determine technical resources and manage design reviews and documentation.
• Lead risk management, planning, and progress updates with stakeholders.
• Deliver robust, scalable solutions and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.

Skills

Electronic Engineering

Leadership

Hardware design

System architecture

RF design

FPGA design

Education

Honours degree in Electronic Engineering or similar

Tools

MATLAB

Project management tools

Job description

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~16,800 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.

We are growing the team within our Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Centre of Excellence and looking for a Senior Staff Project Technical Lead - Hardware ready to solve complex problems alongside people who know this technology inside out.

If you want your work to influence critical technologies used around the world, we would like to hear from you.

The Senior Staff Project Technical Lead - Hardware provides technical direction and leadership across complex engineering projects, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality solutions. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, the role is responsible for guiding technical decision-making, aligning stakeholders, and resolving complex design challenges to achieve project objectives.

As both a leader and hands‑on contributor, the Technical Lead combines deep technical expertise with a broad systems perspective, driving technical excellence across the project while considering impacts beyond their own area of specialism. The role plays a key part in fostering collaboration, managing technical risks, and ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, and effective solutions.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership to a cross functional team, of varying seniority, during the design and development of technical projects. Includes the need to understand and account for requirements outside of Hardware discipline and encompasses the whole Keysight Lifecycle (KLC) Process including concept, requirements capture, planning/estimation, detailed design, implementation, qualification, and end of life
• Coordinate and provide technical input into Product Management Team against customer requirements.
• Determine technical resource required for project execution.
• Leading design review meetings (including gathering required inputs and completing documentation).
• Determine validation and qualification requirements working closely with Product Verification Team.
• Work with Project Management Organisation to provide technical updates on project progress, monitor risks and execute Project plans and to manage resource contention.
• Make decisions around technical implementation of projects.
• Be an individual contributor within projects in the Hardware aspects of the project.
• Consider inputs from all areas of the business required for product launch (e.g. Operations, Global Services, Supply Chain, Commercial).
• Produce and maintain clear, concise and accurate technical documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, Communications Engineering, or a similar discipline
• Extensive relevant experience in a similar role (~8+ years) with the ability to add value with limited development.
• Multiple years’ experience working within a structured engineering environment that includes Requirements Analysis/Definition, Design/Implementation, Defect Tracking, and Testing electronic design for product development at a lead level.
• Analog and Digital Electronics proficiency at both system and component level.
• System level design including hard and soft elements.
• Understanding of the software development process and its interdependencies on hardware.
• Understanding of the mechanical design process for electronic packaging.
• Board level electronic circuit design.
• New Product Introduction experience.
• Knowledge of Project management tools and methods.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise technical reports and project documentation.

Desirable

• Experience in RF electronics or FPGA design.
• Knowledge or practical experience in one or more of the following areas: digital modulation, GNSS, communications theory, signal processing and cryptographic techniques.
• Experience using MATLAB or similar modelling and analysis tools.

Behaviours

• Ability to both own and lead multi-disciplinary projects through the Keysight Lifecycle Process.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, presentation and analytical skills.
• Proven leader in technical areas of expertise, leading by example and results oriented, focused on getting to the desired outcome.
• Creativity --original/innovative thinker, ability to go beyond traditional approaches.
• Team player with a highly collaborative and positive attitude.
• Ability to work on extremely complex system wide problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors.
• Eager to learn new technologies, self-motivated, energetic approach.
• Demonstrable mentoring and training experience.
• Communicates effectively, listens sensitively, adapts communication to audience and fosters effective communication with others.
• Good problem-solving skills coupled with a strong aptitude to learn and innovate.
• Organised and methodical but also a creative thinker.
• Steps up and acts without being asked. Looks for opportunities to make a difference.
• Adapts to new/difficult situations and devise ways to overcome obstacles.
• Decisive, determined, and persistent - demonstrating both individual and collective ownership.
• Takes on responsibility for delivery of products or components, including direction of other staff and reporting to stakeholders.

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