R&D Software Engineering Manager - US-CA-Santa Rosa-Bldg 3, United States

Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves leading an Agile engineering team focused on software and firmware development, bridging software and hardware disciplines.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and energize an Agile engineering team across software and firmware.
• Drive product strategy and technical direction for web, mobile, desktop, and firmware development.
• Champion customer centricity through a well-groomed product backlog spanning IoT, mobile, web, and desktop applications.
• Own the strategy and execution of the instrument's telemetry and diagnostics platform.
• Partner with global service, standards, and analytics teams, and participate in customer beta programs.
• Document storage format, retrieval behavior, and configuration interfaces.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience bringing solutions to market from idea, concept, POC, to fully commercialized products.
• Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded/instrument firmware.
• Hands-on experience in React, Angular, or similar modern JS frameworks for building desktop, web, or mobile applications.
• Experience with cloud technologies and microservices architecture.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML techniques to product design, development, or tooling problems.
• Experience developing embedded or instrument firmware/software on Linux and/or Windows-based platforms.
• Experience with file-system and persistent-storage design under size and reliability constraints.

Nice to have

• Prior exposure to Keysight-specific (or equivalent) hardware interactions, test-and-measurement instruments, asset or calibration data flows, health/utilization monitoring, or instrument software architecture.
• Working knowledge of SCPI and of keeping background telemetry activity from interfering with customer test programs.
• Experience with configurable periodic tasks, power-up initialization sequences, and designing for data retention across offline intervals.
• Familiarity with structured telemetry or logging formats (JSON or line-delimited records), log rotation, and schema-aligned data matching an external query interface.
• UX/UI design sensibility for building desktop or web interfaces that present telemetry, asset, and health/utilization data clearly.
• Experience with networked instrument environments (LAN, with awareness of GPIB/legacy connectivity constraints) and with agents or services that collect data from devices.
• Ability to collaborate across firmware, systems software, cloud/on-prem analytics, and services organizations; clear written communication for standards-related interface definitions.
• Prior exposure to Keysight-specific (or equivalent) hardware interactions, test-and-measurement instruments, asset or calibration data flows, health/utilization monitoring, or instrument software architecture.

Skills: firmware, C/C++, IoT, telemetry, Linux, Windows