Solutions Engineer - US-CA-Santa Clara-Bldg 4-Keysi, United States
$137,190 - $228,650 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves supporting Keysight's Field Sales team by addressing customer measurement challenges and demonstrating Keysight's solutions for high-speed digital and optical technologies. You will act as the key technical resource in the pre-sales process to create customer preference for Keysight products.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain expertise on high-speed digital and optical products, including oscilloscopes, bit error rate testers, arbitrary waveform generators, protocol analyzers, and optical component test solutions.
- Translate customer measurement or application requirements into solutions using Keysight hardware and software products.
- Plan and deliver complex demonstrations of test solutions to customers on-site.
- Create and present technical presentations and demos at seminars, customer events, and trade shows.
- Act as the customer voice to influence future product design and development decisions.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including account management, marketing, industry solution planning, R&D, and services.
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical Engineering.
- 3-5 years of relevant industry experience, including optical and/or silicon characterization or verification test environments with customer-facing technical responsibilities.
- Hands-on experience with relevant test equipment, measurement workflows, solution development, and customer technical problem-solving.
- Strong understanding of high-speed digital measurement applications and/or optical communications interfaces, with an emphasis on physical layer AI infrastructure technologies.
- Familiarity with programming languages such as C#, C, Python, and/or MATLAB.
- Ability to drive a company vehicle and transport test equipment to/from customer sites (lift 50 lbs).
Skills: customer measurement challenges, demonstrate solutions, high-speed digital, optical technologies, test equipment
This role has been open 50 days — below the 57-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
89
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$183k
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| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (89 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 89 |
| Median days open | 44 d | 57 d (−13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $183k |
Skills observed across this category: customer measurement challenges, demonstrate solutions, high-speed digital, optical technologies, test equipment
Who's hiring in this category
- Synopsys · 17 open roles · median 29 d
- Astera Labs · 16 open roles · median 61 d
- Keysight Technologies (this employer) · 9 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 67 d
- Microchip Technology · 6 open roles · median 43 d
- Marvell Technology · 5 open roles · median 173 d
How we counted: 89 open Applications FAE (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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. Figures refresh nightly.