Solution Planner

Date: Feb 8, 2024- Country: Germany- State / Province: Baden-Württemberg- City: Boeblingen- Job Type: Regular- Job ID: 51781Keysight is on the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights to the world’s visionaries and innovators in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Our technical solutions - and our methods for creating them - help connect and secure the world. Learn more about what we do and how we do it.

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The AI Infrastructure Solution Team is in search of a dynamic and strategic Solution Planner to lead the planning and guide the development of optical interconnect testing solutions.

This is a great opportunity for an individual that wants to work with a highly motivated, highly skilled and very innovative team to help define, and develop the next generation of measurements in our oscilloscopes, BERTs and optical test equipment.

**Responsibilities**:
**Market Insight and Solution Planning**:

- Analyze upcoming market trends driven by AI Workloads Requirements and articulate the impact to Keysight optical interconnect test portfolio and strategy
- Identify emerging opportunities for innovation and strategic investment based on these market insights.
- Engage leading customers and lead efforts in requirements gathering, experimentation, product management, and the solution development processes.
- Collaborate with global cross-functional teams and utilize understanding of measurement science techniques to influence the R&D roadmap and shape the development of effective testing solutions.

**Standards Influence and Compliance**:

- Become a respected contributing member of key industry standards development committees, working with individuals across the industry
- Develop in-depth technical knowledge of the relevant standards ( IEEE, ITU, OIF-CEI) and work to enable progress to gain consensus agreement on measurement techniques in the optical transmission industry.
- Attendance at all key standards meetings that are scheduled in either in-person and virtual formats will be required throughout the year

**Business Growth Strategy**:

- Contribute to the development and implementation of the business growth strategy for optical interconnect segment
- Collaborate with Business Development and Sales teams to ensure effective execution of the growth strategy.
- Embrace a customer-first and result-oriented mindset, bringing a positive growth mindset attitude to the team.
- Enable and be the go-to-expert for solution engineers and customers for solutions
- Familiarity with the technology lifecycle and the ability to recognize adjacent market opportunities

**Technical Expertise**:
Knowledge of the following emerging technology:

- IM Direct Detect and Coherent optical technology
- Linear Drive Optics
- Co-packaged Optics
- Optical Interconnect fabric
- TDEQ/EECQ/SNDR

**Job Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent engineering major in optical systems & design with 5 years of experience
- Demonstrated engineering skills in prior internships or jobs
- The ability to work in fast-paced, multi-disciplined, cross-department environment
- Demonstrated skill and sustained interest in two or more of the disciplines listed below.
- Test and Measurement instrumentation usage (Oscilloscope, Network Analyzer, Bit-Error Rate Tester, Optical Test Equipment, etc.)
- Optical data signal generation and receiver technology
- Optical and/or electrical data transmission systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication