Senior TPM: 5G/6G Wireless Programs Lead

Keysight Technologies; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight Technologies seeks an Senior Technical Program Manager to drive 6G-related wireless programs from on-site customer labs in Santa Clara, CA. You will own engagements, manage schedules, and ensure readiness for customer milestones with detailed documentation and executive-level reporting.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support, with a strong focus on delivering commitments on time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical, customer, or engineering program management in wireless, semiconductor, or test and measurement.
• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional programs to completion through teams outside the program manager's own line, in a customer-facing environment.
• Working knowledge of cellular systems: 4G and 5G today, the standards path to 6G, the modem and device development cycle, and how test equipment is deployed, accepted, and used in a customer labs.
• Relentless follow-through: asks for the same date until it is written down, and escalates when a commitment is at risk.
• Fluency in program mechanics: plans of record, critical path, schedule trend, risk registers, and executive status reporting.

Responsibilities

• The program record for every engagement, kept current daily with status, owner, milestone, and recovery plan.
• The plan of record for each engagement, including shipment, installation, configuration, acceptance, and first measurements.
• The program meetings and follow-up to closure with clear decisions and owners.
• Identify risks across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support; renegotiate in writing before dates pass.
• Readiness sign-off: ensure evidence supports readiness before customer presentation.

Skills

Program management

Customer-facing

Documentation

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Keysight Technologies seeks an Senior Technical Program Manager to drive 6G-related wireless programs from on-site customer labs in Santa Clara, CA. You will own engagements, manage schedules, and ensure readiness for customer milestones with detailed documentation and executive-level reporting.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support, with a strong focus on delivering commitments on time.