R&D Integrating Manager - Semiconductor Infrastructure Solutions

About Keysight At Keysight, we help companies address their toughest challenges with precision and confidence. Our customers sit at the center of everything we do and we enable them to bring breakthrough technologies to life.   Within Semiconductor Infrastructure Solutions (SIS), we co‑innovate with leading semiconductor equipment customers to deliver next-generation metrology systems that enable continued advancement of Moore’s Law. SIS’s core differentiator is high-precision laser interferometry. Our displacement- and position-measuring interferometer systems deliver the sub-nanometer accuracy that lithography and wafer-inspection tools depend on to control stage position. These systems are integrated directly into scanners and metrology platforms from customers, enabling the overlay accuracy and throughput required at the most advanced semiconductor process nodes in the world.

The Role As an R&D Integrating Manager, you will lead a team of R&D managers and engineers while serving as the critical integration point across development, customer programs, and operations.   You will translate product and technology direction into executable plans, ensuring alignment across teams and delivering complex, customer-driven development programs with strong performance and predictability. This role combines deep technical expertise with execution leadership, ensuring system-level performance and readiness from concept through NPI and into production. Much of this work centers around displacement metrology subsystems that span laser sources, precision optics, optomechanical stages, and real-time signal-processing electronics and innovation in these and adjacent areas.   Why This Role Matters This role sits at the center of SIS execution—ensuring that complex, cross-functional, customer-driven development efforts translate into real, delivered outcomes. You will play a critical role in enabling the organization to scale innovation while maintaining the performance and reliability required by the world’s leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers. At SIS, that includes the interferometry-based position and displacement metrology systems that power next-generation lithography scanners at customers where nanometer-level precision directly influences chip yield and the pace of Moore’s Law.

Translate Strategy into Execution Convert product and technology direction into clear development plans, priorities, and milestones Align teams around what must be delivered, when, and at what level of performance Make trade-offs across scope, timeline, and technical complexity to maintain delivery commitments   Integrate Across Functions Act as the integration point across R&D, marketing, NPI, manufacturing, and adjacent teams Ensure strong alignment in areas where breakdowns typically occur: requirements to design to production readiness custom solutions to scalable platforms development timelines to customer commitments Drive end-to-end accountability for program execution, not just functional success   Execute Customer-Funded Development Programs Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to execute co-development programs Ensure clarity on requirements, specifications, and success criteria Deliver on-time, in-spec outcomes while maintaining strong customer confidence   Drive Execution Discipline & Predictability Improve delivery predictability and program health across development efforts Reduce late-stage surprises through clear milestones, early risk identification, and decisive action Strengthen transitions from development to NPI to production   Lead and Develop a High-Performing Organization Lead a team of 2–3 R&D managers and 35–40 engineers and scientists across lasers, optics, optomechanics, and electronics Drive accountability for outcomes, not just activity Strengthen technical capability while building a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous