Product Security Architect — Lead Threat Modeling

Keysight Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight Technologies in Loveland, Colorado, is seeking an experienced Product Security Architect to help embed security into our software products throughout the lifecycle. You will collaborate with R&D teams to prioritize risks, lead threat modeling, and define secure design patterns and reference architectures.

Ideal candidates have extensive software security experience, strong engineering judgment, and the ability to influence senior engineers and product leaders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Typically 8+ years of relevant experience combining software development with product security, application security, software security, software architecture, or related security engineering.
• Experience leading threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, and risk assessments for complex software products or platforms.
• Strong understanding of software development with hands-on development in C, C#, Java, or other relevant programming languages.
• Deep knowledge of product and application security, including secure design principles, authentication and authorization, cryptography fundamentals, common application attack patterns, and secure SDLC practices.
• Strong knowledge of security testing and development practices including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, vulnerability management, and CI/CD security controls.
• Ability to influence technical audiences without direct authority and drive adoption of security standards.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements (CRA) preferred; willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Partner with software engineering, architecture, and product teams across Keysight R&D to evaluate product security risks and provide practical design guidance that balances security, product requirements, scalability, and business needs.
• Lead security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for new and existing software products and platforms, identifying meaningful security risks and helping engineering teams make informed design decisions.
• Define and maintain reusable product security reference architectures, secure design patterns, engineering standards, and guidance that enable R&D teams to build security into the software development lifecycle.
• Guide the adoption and effective use of secure development practices and security tooling, including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, and CI/CD security controls, helping teams integrate security effectively into their development workflows.
• Establish risk-based approaches for vulnerability triage, remediation, exception handling, and security verification, helping product teams prioritize security risks based on technical and business impact.
• Work with Legal, R&D, and other cross-functional partners to understand evolving product cybersecurity regulations and industry requirements and translate them into practical technical requirements and guidance for engineering teams.
• Research, evaluate, and introduce security technologies, tools, and automation that improve the developer experience and scale product security practices across Keysight.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and security practitioners, influencing security strategy, engineering practices, roadmap priorities, and long-term architectural direction across teams and organizations.
• Stay current on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, technologies, regulatory expectations, and industry practices and apply that knowledge to the evolving security needs of Keysight products.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Secure development

CI/CD security

Mentorship

Cross-functional influence

Regulatory knowledge

Programming (C/C++, Java)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Keysight Technologies in Loveland, Colorado, is seeking an experienced Product Security Architect to help embed security into our software products throughout the lifecycle. You will collaborate with R&D teams to prioritize risks, lead threat modeling, and define secure design patterns and reference architectures.

Ideal candidates have extensive software security experience, strong engineering judgment, and the ability to influence senior engineers and product leaders across the organization.