Application Engineer Expert - Medical Devices
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About the role
Overview:
Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. 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.
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.
We are seeking a highly versatile Expert Application Engineer to support customer engagement and solution development across the Americas region. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, learning agility, customer-facing technical maturity, and the ability to reason through ambiguous problems. Broad exposure to electrical measurement technologies, automation, and software development is valuable, but the strongest candidate will be someone who can learn unfamiliar domains quickly and help architect practical solutions to complex customer challenges.
The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader and trusted problem-solving partner, working with sales, R&D, marketing, and customers to define, develop, demonstrate, and deploy integrated design and test solutions. The role is well suited for an engineer who is energized by cutting-edge problems where the requirements may be incomplete, the solution may not already exist, and success requires asking good questions, forming testable assumptions, and learning quickly. Experience supporting highly regulated industries such as medical devices, life sciences, or digital health is desirable, but not required if the candidate demonstrates the ability to ramp quickly in new technical and application domains.
Responsibilities:
Customer Technical Leadership
Act as the primary technical consultant supporting strategic opportunities across the Americas.
Engage directly with customers to understand measurement challenges, manufacturing requirements, and emerging technology needs.
Translate customer requirements into differentiated Keysight solutions and business value propositions.
Lead technical discussions, executive briefings, workshops, proof-of-concepts, and solution demonstrations.
Solution Development & Innovation
Design and develop integrated test solutions combining hardware, software, automation, and analytics.
Create novel measurement methodologies and workflows leveraging Keysight instrumentation and software platforms.
Drive solution development from concept through deployment and customer adoption.
Identify market gaps and collaborate with product development teams to influence future product roadmaps.
Cross-Domain Learning & Technical Breadth
Provide technical leadership across customer problems that may involve a broad range of technologies. The candidate is not expected to be an expert in every area on day one, but should demonstrate strong fundamentals, curiosity, and the ability to learn, connect concepts, and apply adjacent-domain knowledge across areas such as:
DC Parametric Testing
Power Electronics and Power Integrity
Data Acquisition and Instrument Control
RF and Wireless Measurements
High-Speed Digital Design and Validation
Embedded Systems and Microcontrollers
Automated Test Systems
Manufacturing and Production Test
Signal Integrity and Protocol Analysis
Sensor and Mixed-Signal Validation
Data Analytics and AI-Assisted Test Workflows
Software & Automation Development
Develop applications, automation frameworks, and customer-specific workflows utilizing Python, C#, MATLAB, LabVIEW, SCPI, and Keysight software platforms.
Integrate instrumentation into automated validation and production environments.
Create reusable software assets that accelerate deployment across multiple customer engagements.
Thought Leadership
Serve as a technical mentor to application engineers and technical sales teams.
Represent Keysight at industry conferences, customer events, and technical forums.
Publish application notes, technical papers, and training content to establish Keysight thought leadership.
Qualifications:
Education
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline.
Master's degree preferred.
Experience
Typically 7+ years of relevant experience in test and measurement, electronics design, validation, manufacturing test, automation, systems integration, or solution development; candidates with less experience may be considered if they demonstrate exceptional learning velocity, technical maturity, and customer-facing problem-solving ability.
Demonstrated success supporting customer-facing technical engagements, especially where requirements were incomplete, evolving, or required structured discovery.
Proven ability to reason through complex technical problems, develop practical automated measurement solutions, and guide them from concept toward deployment.
Technical Skills and Learning Profile
Deep expertise in at least one measurement, automation, validation, or systems-integration domain is expected. Breadth across additional domains is valuable, but demonstrated ability to learn quickly, ask effective questions, reason from fundamentals, and connect technologies into complete solutions is more important than prior experience with every listed area:
DC Measurement Techniques
Oscilloscopes and Signal Analysis
Source Measure Units (SMUs)
Power Supplies and Electronic Loads
RF Test and Measurement
Vector Network Analysis
Spectrum Analysis
Wireless Communications Testing
Digital Test and Debug
Test Automation Frameworks
Programming and Scripting
Data Analytics and Visualization
Software Skills
Experience with one or more of:
Python
C#
MATLAB
LabVIEW
C/C++
TestStand
Instrument Control Frameworks
Cloud-Based Analytics Platforms
Preferred Qualifications
Digital Health Industry Experience
Highly desirable experience supporting:
Medical device manufacturing and validation
Wearable medical devices
Continuous glucose monitoring systems
Implantable medical devices
Digital health platforms
Design verification and validation testing
Additional Preferred Experience
Industrial automation and robotics
AI and machine learning applications in testing
Advanced manufacturing analytics
Key Competencies
The ideal candidate should demonstrate the behaviors needed to operate successfully at the boundary of their current knowledge: intellectual curiosity, sound judgment under ambiguity, technical humility, composure under pressure, and the ability to learn interactively with customers and internal experts.
Technical Leadership
Innovation & Problem Solving
Curiosity and Learning Agility
Structured Reasoning Under Ambiguity
Technical Humility and Intellectual Honesty
Systems Thinking
Customer Obsession
Solution Architecture
Business Acumen
Executive Communication
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Mentoring & Coaching
Strategic Influence
ITAR statement: This position requires access to certain goods, software, technology, or technical data subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these laws and regulations, U.S. persons (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees) working for Keysight can access export-controlled items without authorization from the U.S. government. For any individual who is not a U.S. person, Keysight may need authorization from the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce, or other appropriate federal agency before the individual can access export-controlled items. Employment in this position for non-U.S. persons is contingent on Keysight’s ability to obtain any required government authorizations. We are unable to support visa sponsorship for this position
Careers Privacy Statement
The 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.
California pay range: MIN $139,270.00 MAX $232,120.00
Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region
This role is eligible for <> Keysight Results Bonus Program OR Pay For Results Bonus Program OR Sales Incentive Program
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)
Restricted Stock Units
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Compensation
This Healthcare role pays $139k-$232k/yr. Within typical range for healthcare roles in United States.
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