R&D Hardware Engineer - US-CA-Santa Rosa-Bldg 3, United States
$138,960 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 March 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an R&D Hardware Engineer on the Digital and Photonics R&D team, you will design and develop hardware for time-domain measurement instruments and high-performance oscilloscopes. The work involves hardware architecture definition, subsystem implementation, and integration of optical and electrical circuits operating from 20 GHz to 200 GHz.
What you'll do
- Define hardware system block diagrams and functional sub-systems for high-performance oscilloscopes and time-domain measurement instruments. - Design and implement instrument hardware subsystems, including optical and electrical frontends, signal sampling subsystems, and clock recovery/phase lock loop circuits operating from 20 GHz to 200 GHz. - Integrate individual hardware designs with analog control, sensing, and adjustment circuitry alongside R&D hardware and software engineering teams. - Invent new IP for instrument designs, author invention disclosures, and prepare patent applications. - Document and present measurement IP, test methodologies, and technical data to cross-functional teams and customers. - Collaborate with new product introduction and technology partner teams to bring designs through the full product development lifecycle into volume manufacturing.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or an equivalent field with emphasis in hardware applied to signal processing and digital communication. - 5 to 10 years of related hardware design experience. - Track record of hardware system block diagram design, partitioning subsystems, defining specifications, and evaluating performance, cost, and implementation tradeoffs. - Demonstrated end-to-end design and implementation of hardware designs featuring circuits operating in the 20 GHz to 200 GHz range. - Hands-on experience configuring optical and electrical measuring instruments to acquire and evaluate sampled signal waveforms.
Nice to have
- Experience with hardware design involving optical components, such as photodiodes, optical-to-electrical converters, and optical communication signal transmission. - Hands-on experience using electronics test equipment to set up signal sampling, execute test scenarios, and verify measurement integrity. - Experience with high-frequency or optical circuit simulation tools, such as ADS. - Experience with designs realized in PC board, high-frequency media such as thin film, and optical structures. - Demonstrated knowledge of design practices to preserve signal integrity and minimize noise. - Experience defining technical specifications for partner technologies such as new ICs or fab processes.
Skills: oscilloscopes, hardware architecture, time-domain measurement
This role has been open 215 days — well above the 62-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
258
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$165k
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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 (258 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 258 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 40 | 1439 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 104 d | 62 d (+42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: oscilloscopes, hardware architecture, time-domain measurement
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 41 open roles · median 56 d
- Skyworks · 36 open roles · median 60 d
- Keysight Technologies (this employer) · 28 open roles · median 105 d
- Apple · 23 open roles · median 10 d
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 109 d
- Analog Devices · 10 open roles · median 72 d
How we counted: 258 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 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 Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.