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Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.\nOur award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a visionary, user-focused Senior Application Engineer / Solutions Architect with a deep background in Electrical Engineering and hands-on experience in RF design environments to shape the user experience and application strategy for our advanced semiconductor design platform.\nIn this role, your primary responsibility is to be the active voice of the engineer. You will regularly meet with users, design teams, and early adopters to deeply understand their workflows, friction points, and domain challenges in 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI), high-frequency RF, mmWave, and emerging photonic architectures. You will bridge these human insights directly into our platform architecture, translating user pain points into technical design guidance, API ergonomic requirements, and feature specifications for our core software engineering teams.\nCombining your expertise in RF EDA tools with script-level programming, you will validate programmatic workflows, build realistic reference designs, and collaborate closely with system architects and software leads to shape API ergonomics, layout editing capabilities, and automated verification flows that define the next generation of programmatic EDA software.\nResponsibilities\nUser Discovery & Pain Point Translation: Actively meet and engage with user engineering teams to study their day-to-day design flows, identify critical bottlenecks in 3DHI and RF packaging, and synthesize user feedback into actionable platform design guidance and technical requirements for software R&D.\nProduct Strategy & User-Centric Design: Serve as the internal domain authority on RF, mmWave, and advanced packaging workflows, ensuring that platform APIs, data models, and automation features reflect the real-world mental models and needs of electrical engineers.\nAgentic Flow Prototyping & Scripting: Write Python scripts, API integration tests, and programmatic workflow examples to validate automated layout and schematic operations, ensuring tools remain intuitive and accessible to domain engineers without computer science backgrounds.\nCross-Domain Workflow Expansion: Define evaluation flows and test cases for emerging 3DHI domains based on user-reported priorities.\nReference Designs & Benchmarking: Build and maintain end-to-end reference design flows and benchmarks to stress-test platform capabilities, automated design space exploration, and simulator integrations under realistic engineering conditions.\nBridging Users & R&D: Work closely with internal software architects and developers to advocate for user priorities, guide API ergonomic decisions, and validate that new platform releases directly address customer pain points.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field. \nDirect, hands-on experience running, debugging, and resolving standard physical verification flows-specifically Design Rule Checking (DRC) and Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) error reports\nFamiliarity with electronic design and packaging abstractions, such as schematic connectivity, physical layout hierarchies, netlisting, or multi-die 2.5D/3D packaging concepts.\nPractical experience automating layout tasks, verification runs, or design setups using Python libraries or native EDA scripting interfaces (e.g., Python DSLs, PyAEDT, SKILL, or TCL).\nStrong interpersonal and communication skills with a passion for interviewing engineers, gathering workflow requirements, and converting qualitative user feedback into structured technical guidance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior experience in an Application Engineering, Technical Marketing, or Solutions Architecture role within the EDA or semiconductor IP industry.\nStrong understanding of high-frequency RF/microwave circuit concepts, 2.5D/3D packaging structures (micro-bumps, TSVs, interposers), electromagnetic coupling, or signal integrity.\nExperience configuring or running multi-technology assembly verification, interposer DRC/LVS, die-to-die connectivity extraction, or 3D-IC verification flows.\nExperience with C++/Rust.\nConceptual understanding of AI agentic frameworks, automated optimization algorithms, or LLM-driven developer tooling in engineering contexts.\nThe level of role will be based on applicable experience, education and skills; Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed below.\nCA pay range: MIN $156,740- MAX $261,230\nNote: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region\nThis role is eligible for our Keysight Results Bonus Program\nUS Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:\nMedical, dental and vision\nHealth Savings Account\nHealth Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\nLife, Accident, Disability insurance\nBusiness Travel Accident and Business Travel Health\n401(k) Plan\nFlexible Time Off, Paid Holidays\nPaid Family Leave\nDiscounts, Perks\nTuition Reimbursement\nAdoption Assistance\nESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)\nRestricted Stock Units\nCareers Privacy Statement\nKeysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nKeysight Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.\nUser Discovery & Pain Point Translation: Actively meet and engage with user engineering teams to study their day-to-day design flows, identify critical bottlenecks in 3DHI and RF packaging, and synthesize user feedback into actionable platform design guidance and technical requirements for software R&D.\nProduct Strategy & User-Centric Design: Serve as the internal domain authority on RF, mmWave, and advanced packaging workflows, ensuring that platform APIs, data models, and automation features reflect the real-world mental models and needs of electrical engineers.\nAgentic Flow Prototyping & Scripting: Write Python scripts, API integration tests, and programmatic workflow examples to validate automated layout and schematic operations, ensuring tools remain intuitive and accessible to domain engineers without computer science backgrounds.\nCross-Domain Workflow Expansion: Define evaluation flows and test cases for emerging 3DHI domains based on user-reported priorities.\nReference Designs & Benchmarking: Build and maintain end-to-end reference design flows and benchmarks to stress-test platform capabilities, automated design space exploration, and simulator integrations under realistic engineering conditions.\nBridging Users & R&D: Work closely with internal software architects and developers to advocate for user priorities, guide API ergonomic decisions, and validate that new platform releases directly address customer pain points.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field. \nDirect, hands-on experience running, debugging, and resolving standard physical verification flows-specifically Design Rule Checking (DRC) and Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) error reports\nFamiliarity with electronic design and packaging abstractions, such as schematic connectivity, physical layout hierarchies, netlisting, or multi-die 2.5D/3D packaging concepts.\nPractical experience automating layout tasks, verification runs, or design setups using Python libraries or native EDA scripting interfaces (e.g., Python DSLs, PyAEDT, SKILL, or TCL).\nStrong interpersonal and communication skills with a passion for interviewing engineers, gathering workflow requirements, and converting qualitative user feedback into structured technical guidance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior experience in an Application Engineering, Technical Marketing, or Solutions Architecture role within the EDA or semiconductor IP industry.\nStrong understanding of high-frequency RF/microwave circuit concepts, 2.5D/3D packaging structures (micro-bumps, TSVs, interposers), electromagnetic coupling, or signal integrity.\nExperience configuring or running multi-technology assembly verification, interposer DRC/LVS, die-to-die connectivity extraction, or 3D-IC verification flows.\nExperience with C++/Rust.\nConceptual understanding of AI agentic frameworks, automated optimization algorithms, or LLM-driven developer tooling in engineering contexts.\nThe level of role will be based on applicable experience, education and skills; Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed below.\nCA pay range: MIN $156,740- MAX $261,230\nNote: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region\nThis role is eligible for our Keysight Results Bonus Program\nUS Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:\nMedical, dental and vision\nHealth Savings Account\nHealth Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\nLife, Accident, Disability insurance\nBusiness Travel Accident and Business Travel Health\n401(k) Plan\nFlexible Time Off, Paid Holidays\nPaid Family Leave\nDiscounts, Perks\nTuition Reimbursement\nAdoption Assistance\nESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)\nRestricted Stock Units\nCareers Privacy Statement\nKeysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nKeysight Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. 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