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Our ~16,800 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.\nWe are growing the team within our Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Centre of Excellence and looking for a Senior Staff Technical Architect - Hardware ready to solve complex problems alongside people who know this technology inside out.\nIf you want your work to influence critical technologies used around the world, we would like to hear from you.\nThe Hardware Technical Architect is responsible for the design, development, and governance of the Hardware architecture of our products, ensuring that technical solutions support both business objectives and current and future product requirements.\nWorking closely with engineering, product management, technical leadership, manufacturing partners and suppliers, the architect defines hardware principles and standards, evaluates emerging technologies and develops technology roadmaps. They ensure that hardware architectures meet performance, reliability, security, regulatory, cost and lifecycle requirements while remaining aligned with the wider product and technology strategy.\nAs a senior technical role, the Hardware Technical Architect leads technical assessments, provides expert guidance on complex projects, and supports the lifecycle management of system hardware from procurement and deployment through to refresh and retirement. They act as the technical authority for hardware-related decisions, ensuring solutions are designed and implemented in accordance with best practices, business requirements, and budget constraints.\nResponsibilities\nOwn and develop the hardware system architecture for next-generation products, translating system and product requirements into robust, scalable hardware solutions.\nProvide technical leadership and design authority across complex hardware developments, guiding key architectural and technology decisions.\nDefine system partitioning, interfaces, design principles and technology choices, balancing performance, cost, power, thermal, reliability, security, manufacturability, and lifecycle requirements.\nLead architectural trade-off studies, design reviews and technical investigations, identifying and mitigating significant technical risks early in the development lifecycle.\nWork across Hardware, Systems, FPGA, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Test and Manufacturing teams to ensure a coherent end-to-end product architecture.\nEvaluate and introduce new technologies and architectural approaches, using analysis, modelling and prototyping where appropriate to de-risk future product development.\nDrive design reuse, common platforms and engineering best practice, improving product quality and development efficiency across multiple product generations.\nProvide senior technical support during complex design, integration, verification and product delivery issues, leading teams towards effective resolution.\nMentor and develop engineers, sharing specialist knowledge and raising the technical capability of the wider engineering organisation.\nCommunicate architectural decisions, technical risks and recommendations effectively to engineering leadership, project teams and other key stakeholders.\nQualifications\nEssential\nHonours degree in Electronic Engineering, Communications Engineering, or a similar discipline.\nExtensive relevant experience in a similar role (~8+ years) with the ability to add value with limited development.\nStrong Analog and Digital Electronics proficiency at both system and component level.\nExperience of system-level design involving hardware, FPGA, firmware and software elements.\nUnderstanding of the software development process and its interdependencies between hardware, firmware and software.\nUnderstanding of the mechanical design process for electronic packaging.\nThe ability to work independently, exercise sound technical judgement and provide effective leadership with minimal supervision.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise technical reports and architecture documentation.\nExperience in Digital Modulation techniques, GNSS, Communications theory, Signal Processing, Encryption processes and Matlab are all advantages.\nDesirable\nExperience of RF electronics or FPGA design\nKnowledge or practical experience in one or more of the following areas: digital modulation, GNSS, communications theory, signal processing and encryption techniques.\nExperience using MATLAB or similar modelling and analysis tools.\nBehaviours\nAbility to both own and lead multi-disciplinary projects through the Keysight Lifecycle Process (KLC).\nAbility to work on extremely complex system wide problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors.\nTakes on responsibility for delivery of products or components, including direction of other staff and reporting to stakeholders.\nProven leader in technical areas of expertise, leading by example and results oriented, focused on getting to the desired outcome.\nEager to learn new technologies with a self-motivated, energetic approach.\nOriginal/innovative thinker, ability to go beyond traditional approaches.\nStrong problem-solving and analytical skills coupled with an aptitude to innovate.\nCommunicates and presents effectively, listens sensitively, adapts 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