Senior Technical Program Manager: Hardware & Firmware Orchestrator

Keysight Technologies; Loveland (CO); On-site; USD 139,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) Plan

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Keysight Technologies in Loveland, CO is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to own programs spanning hardware platform and embedded software. You will drive cross-disciplinary planning, manage risks, and deliver on schedule and cost targets while ensuring manufacturability at scale.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and product teams to align commitments, review readiness, and communicate updates to executives.

Qualifications

• Have 8 or more years of technical program management experience, including meaningful, hands‑on experience with both hardware platform development and the embedded software or firmware running on that hardware
• Have genuine technical depth - comfortable in a hardware bring‑up or schematic review, and equally comfortable in a conversation about firmware architecture, RTOS constraints, or embedded integration testing
• Have delivered a product to a cost target and can describe the trade‑offs it required
• Have a track record of delivering complex, cross‑functional programs to completion through teams you do not manage
• Can take a loosely scoped, ambiguous problem and turn it into a concrete plan with clear owners and milestones
• Are rigorous about detail, and check the evidence behind a date, a readiness claim, or a dependency rather than accepting it as reported
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and can translate between hardware engineers, embedded software engineers, and executive stakeholders without losing accuracy in either direction
• Own risk and dependency management across the full hardware and software development lifecycle, including manufacturing readiness and validation
• Have experience coordinating across R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain organizations
• Are comfortable managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and aggressive schedules
• Are proficient with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or similar program management tools
• PMP, Scrum/Agile certification, or equivalent is a plus, not a requirement

Responsibilities

• Own the program end to end, from requirements through hardware bring‑up, embedded software integration, qualification, manufacturing readiness, customer deployment, and post‑launch review
• Drive hardware engineering, embedded and firmware engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and product toward a single committed plan, holding these teams to their commitments without direct authority over any of them
• Partner directly with hardware and embedded/firmware engineers on architecture trade-offs, integration test planning, and qualification strategy
• Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule, critical path, dependencies, and resource plan across hardware and embedded software workstreams
• Own the risk process end to end, covering identification, ownership, mitigation plans, and closure timelines
• Review plans and readiness claims for the evidence behind them, and withhold gate approval where that evidence is not present
• Engage supply chain and manufacturing during design so that product cost and manufacturability are addressed alongside schedule and performance

Skills

Technical PM

Hardware dev

Embedded software

Jira/Confluence

PMP/Agile

Executive comms

Education

Bachelor's in EE/CE/CS

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Keysight Technologies in Loveland, CO is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to own programs spanning hardware platform and embedded software. You will drive cross-disciplinary planning, manage risks, and deliver on schedule and cost targets while ensuring manufacturability at scale.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and product teams to align commitments, review readiness, and communicate updates to executives.