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# Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), 5G/6G Wireless

- **Company:** Keysight Technologies
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $161,000 - $268,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 4G (Telecommunication), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Firmware, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-technical-program-manager-tpm-5g-6g-wireless-san-diego-ca--bb6ebacb-144a-4966-bc1a-2400c602e74a

## About the Role

* 8 or more years of technical, customer, or engineering program management in wireless, semiconductor, or test and measurement
 * A record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs to completion through teams outside the program manager's own line, in a customer-facing environment
 * Working knowledge of cellular systems: 4G and 5G today, the standards path to 6G, the modem and device development cycle, and how test equipment is deployed, accepted, and used in a customer's lab
 * Fluency in program mechanics: plans of record, critical path, schedule trend against baseline, risk registers, recovery actions, and executive status reporting
 * Relentless follow-through: asks the same owner for the same date until it is written down, and is comfortable being the person in the room who asks
 * Rigor about evidence: checks what sits behind a date, a readiness claim, or a dependency rather than accepting it as reported
 * Sees around corners: anticipates what could go wrong on a program before it does, and flags it to the right leads while there is still time to act
 * Writing that stands on its own: notes, status, and readouts a senior engineering leader can act on at first reading
 * Experience working directly with Director-level and above stakeholders, and the discretion to operate inside highly confidential development programs
 * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
 * Ability to travel to customer sites as the programs require

## Description

* WHAT YOU WILL OWN
 * The program record for every engagement, kept current daily: status, named owner, next customer milestone, and date, with a plain reason and a recovery plan on every item that is not on track.
 * The plan of record for each engagement, managed to the customer's ready-to-use date, with Keysight's internal dates for shipment, installation, configuration, acceptance, and first measurements beneath it
 * The program meetings, internal and customer-facing: the agenda, each action assigned to a person with a due date, and the follow-up to closure between meetings
 * Commitments and risks across R&D, firmware, planning, services, and support: anticipated before they surface, tracked to their dates, renegotiated in writing before a date passes, and escalated to Wireless leadership the same day a commitment is known to be at risk
 * Readiness sign-off: no date or readiness claim reaches the customer until the program manager has reviewed the evidence behind it

WHAT YOU WILL DELIVER

 * A program plan per engagement, agreed with the customer's program counterparts and Keysight's R&D and planning owners within 90 days of start, refreshed at every milestone
 * Meeting notes within one business day: decisions, owners, and dates
 * A weekly written status: the situation, the implication, and the ask
 * A monthly program readout: schedule performance against the plan of record, critical path, risks with owners, and a recommended course of action wherever the program is off plan
 * A monthly quality report per customer: open issues by priority and age, turnaround against commitments, the trend, and the actions behind any line moving the wrong way
 * A root cause and recovery plan on every missed customer milestone, written for an engineering executive audience

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

 * Customer milestones are met on the customer's dates
 * Risks and slips are raised by the program manager, in writing, with the ask, before the customer or Keysight leadership raises them
 * Every open engagement carries a current status, a named owner, a next milestone, and a date, at any point in time
 * Plans, notes, status, and readouts are accepted by Wireless leadership at first review

On-site engineers' time is customer and lab time; the program meetings and records run without them in the room