Senior Principal Architect, Next‑Gen Instrument Platforms

Job description

Keysight’s Software and AI Labs (SAL) is leading the evolution of software-centric instruments, modernizing how instruments are architected, composed, and scaled across hardware, software, and distributed systems. This transformation strengthens long-term competitive differentiation and increases architectural reuse across businesses.

SAL is seeking a Senior Principal Architect, Next‑Gen Instrument Platforms to provide enterprise-wide architectural leadership focused on software-centric instrument platforms. This role shapes the upper layers of the instrument stack—including orchestration, distributed control, connectivity, automation, user interaction, and lifecycle architecture—ensuring coherent, scalable, and reusable software foundations across product lines.

This position operates at company-impact scope, guiding architectural direction across multiple businesses and serving as a senior technical advisor to executive leadership. The role partners with peer hardware and firmware architecture leaders to provide end-to-end architectural stewardship across the instrument platform stack.

• Define and institutionalize the architectural direction for software-centric instrument platforms across Keysight, establishing standards and reusable frameworks adopted across multiple businesses and product families.
• Establish reference architectures and technical guardrails for:
• Distributed orchestration and control
• Instrument connectivity and secure command layers
• High-performance data movement and streaming
• Automation, synchronization, and multi-instrument coordination
• Application and user interface integration
• Set long-range technical direction for distributed software platforms, guiding major cross-business decisions involving orchestration, connectivity, lifecycle management, and platform evolution.
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