Product Engineer - US-CA-Santa Rosa-Bldg 4, United States
$114,000 - $191,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.
The Precision Meso-scale Technology Center (PMTC) provides high-precision mechanical solutions that enable RF, microwave, and mmWave hardware.
About the role
The Product Engineer owns a mechanical product family end-to-end within the Precision Meso-scale Technology Center (PMTC), linking the NPI team, process engineering, metrology, and Keysight product lines. The role focuses on high-precision mechanical solutions supporting RF, microwave, mmWave, and 5G/6G measurement equipment.
What you'll do
- Own product-family yield end-to-end, including first-pass yield, scrap, rework, cost of poor quality across all process blocks, and implementation of SPC on critical-to-quality features. - Pareto top losses, lead cross-process RCCA using 8D and DMAIC methodologies, accept NPI-to-production handoffs, and drive yield maturation to target. - Maintain accountability for drawing conformance, GD&T, and AS9100 / ISO 9001 compliance from first article through sustaining production, leading NCM / MRB disposition, containment, and CAR / CAPA closure. - Initiate and manage engineering release, waiver, and deviation requests while delivering DFM and inspectability feedback on new drawings and revisions. - Serve as the primary technical contact for product lines and R&D regarding quality events, recovery plans, and production outside service processing (OSP) qualification.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years in precision machining or precision mechanical component manufacturing in a product, quality, manufacturing, or sustaining engineering role. - Working command of GD&T and measurement methods for machined features, including CMM, optical inspection, and surface profilometry. - Hands-on structured problem-solving experience with 8D, RCCA, DMAIC, and FMEA. - Experience analyzing yield and SPC data using tools such as Excel, Power BI, Minitab, or JMP. - Proven experience presenting quality events, root cause analysis, and recovery plans to customers or program managers.
Skills: product-level yield monitoring, product quality ownership, precision machining, mechanical component manufacturing, 8D, RCCA, DMAIC
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 80-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
152
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$176k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (152 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 152 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 34 | 2227 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 105 d | 80 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $176k |
Skills observed across this category: product-level yield monitoring, product quality ownership, precision machining, mechanical component manufacturing, 8D, RCCA, DMAIC
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 10 open roles · median 103 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 172 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 81 d
- Entegris · 8 open roles · median 92 d
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 62 d
How we counted: 152 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.