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Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our 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.

Our 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.

Keysight is seeking a proven software-oriented general manager to lead the Optical Design Engineering business unit, with full P&L ownership and end-to-end responsibility for strategy, growth, and execution. This role represents a significant general management opportunity for a senior leader with a strong software engineering background to scale a global engineering software business, modernize development practices, accelerate recurring revenue, and drive profitable growth within a broader, highly differentiated multi-physics software portfolio.

As part of Keysight's ongoing transformation, this role is central to advancing modern software engineering excellence, including agile development, continuous delivery, and the effective use of AI-enabled productivity tools across the value chain. The general manager holds full accountability for business performance, software technology direction, and people leadership, while contributing to DES-wide innovation, platform integration, and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a global software engineeringled organization with core development and leadership hubs in the United States, Germany, and Japan, supported by regional commercial coverage across the globe.
• Report directly to the Senior Vice President of DES and operate as a member of the DES senior leadership team, contributing to enterprise-level software strategy, portfolio evolution, and transformation execution.
• Own the end-to-end ODE business with full P&L responsibility, including:
• Software product and platform strategy aligned with DES architectural priorities
• Software engineering execution, agile roadmap delivery, and release predictability
• Go-to-market alignment, pipeline expansion, and recurring revenue growth
• Operational efficiency, cost discipline, and scalable software execution
• Drive the evolution of ODE's development model by strengthening agile and DevOps practices, improving cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams, and increasing speed, quality, and customer impact.
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled productivity tools across engineering, product management, and operations to improve developer efficiency, code quality, testing, documentation, analytics, and decision-making.
• Lead the continued transformation toward recurring software revenue through subscription, hybrid, and enterprise deployment models, improving customer onboarding, adoption, retention, and lifetime value.
• Act as a strategic software business leader, anticipating and shaping industry evolution across:
• Optical and photonics simulation software platforms
• Modern software licensing and deployment models (on-premise, subscription, hybrid enterprise)
• High-performance computing, GPU acceleration, cloud-native architectures, and scalable SaaS models
• AI-enabled design, simulation, and automation workflows
• Identify and develop new growth opportunities by combining software technologies across DES business units, leveraging Keysight's scale to address high-value customer workflows and emerging market needs.
• Drive portfolio focus and differentiation by prioritizing high-impact software use cases, target markets, and competitive positioning within a rapidly evolving simulation and engineering software ecosystem.
• Ensure strong alignment with DES and Keysight strategies, integrating ODE priorities with broader software, hardware, and solutions portfolios to maximize customer value and operational leverage.
• Build and sustain a high-performing, inclusive leadership culture, developing software engineering talent, succession, and engagement across geographies while leading effectively through change.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leader with a strong software engineering background and experience leading large, complex development organizations at scale.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate customer needs, market dynamics, and strategy into effective product, engineering, and investment decisions.
• Technical credibility in optical, photonics, or multi-physics simulation, with the ability to guide long-term software architecture and platform evolution.
• Proven leader of modern software engineering execution, including agile development, CI/CD, and disciplined product lifecycle management across global teams.
• Strategic understanding of modern compute architectures, including HPC, cloud, GPU acceleration, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Experience leveraging AI-driven productivity tools to improve engineering efficiency, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Proven people leader, capable of building high-performing, inclusive teams and leading globally distributed organizations through change and transformation.

The role requires strong global leadership presence and regular international travel.

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Santa Rosa, CA Pay Range: MIN $207,360.00 - $276,480.00 - MAX $345,600.00

Santa Clara, CA Pay Range: MIN $227,520.00 - $303,360.00 - MAX $379,200.00

Pasadena, CA Pay Range: MIN $207,360.00 - $276,480.00 - MAX $345,600.00

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Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed above.

Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region

US Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life, Accident, Disability insurance
• Business Travel Accident and Business Travel Health
• 401(k) Plan
• Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays
• Paid Family Leave
• Discounts, Perks
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Adoption Assistance
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)