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Manager, Manufacturing Test Engineering

Anduril· Manufacturing : Manufacturing Engineering : Manufacturing Engineering
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Costa Mesa, CA$146k - $194kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary manufacturing test engineering team supporting autonomous aircraft, missiles, and loitering munitions. Own test strategy, systems, fixtures, and automation to ensure production-ready testing across programs, with cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a team of ~16 manufacturing test engineers across firmware, hardware, software, electrical, and data acquisition disciplines, setting goals, providing direction, and developing careers.
  • Own the manufacturing test strategy across AD&S programs — from board-level PCBA test through subsystem, integration, and full system acceptance testing.
  • Drive the development and deployment of production test systems, fixtures, and automation that meet throughput, reliability, and quality requirements at rate.
  • Work cross-functionally with design engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, and program management on a daily basis to align test capability with product development timelines and production schedules.
  • Collaborate with design engineering teams early in the development cycle to influence testability requirements, test point access, boundary scan architecture, and built-in test capability.
  • Establish and maintain test engineering standards, processes, and documentation — including test procedures, acceptance criteria, failure analysis workflows, and data management practices.
  • Drive test automation strategy to increase throughput, reduce operator dependency, and improve test coverage and repeatability.
  • Partner with quality engineering to ensure test processes support first-pass yield goals, defect containment, and root cause investigation.
  • Manage the test equipment roadmap — selection, procurement, qualification, calibration, and lifecycle management of test assets across production sites.
  • Build and maintain robust data acquisition and analysis capabilities that enable data-driven decisions on product quality and process performance.
  • Support the transfer of test capability to new production sites, ensuring test systems, documentation, and training are production-ready at each location.
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the test engineering team.
  • Manage budgets and forecast future test engineering needs, including personnel, equipment, and infrastructure.
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex test failures, anomalies, and production-blocking issues requiring cross-functional resolution.
  • Travel to production sites, suppliers, and partner facilities as needed (<10%).

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of experience in test engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related discipline, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team across hardware, software, firmware, and electrical test domains.
  • Strong technical foundation in production test system design, development, and deployment for electronics and electromechanical products.
  • Experience with test automation frameworks, test executive software (LabVIEW, TestStand, Python-based, or similar), and data acquisition systems.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations — and to drive alignment without positional authority over those teams.
  • Understanding of test strategies across the product lifecycle: design verification, production screening, acceptance testing, and field return analysis.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive root cause analysis and corrective action on complex test failures.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels of the organization from technicians to executives.
  • Experience managing budgets, equipment procurement, and vendor relationships for test engineering programs.
  • Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment across several concurrent programs.
  • Personal experience with hands-on test development, debug, or troubleshooting of electronic systems.
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people developmentProduction test system design
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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