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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Manager of Manufacturing Test Engineering to lead a multi-disciplinary test engineering team supporting autonomous aircraft, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions. You will manage approximately 16 engineers spanning firmware, hardware, software, electrical, and data acquisition disciplines.
In this role, you will own the manufacturing test strategy across the Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) programs, from board-level PCBA test through subsystem, integration, and full system acceptance testing. You will design, develop, deploy, and maintain production-grade test systems, fixtures, and automation that scale with program demands and meet throughput, reliability, and quality requirements at rate.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing a multi-disciplinary engineering team, setting goals and fostering career growth
- Owning manufacturing test strategy across all AD&S programs
- Driving development and deployment of production test systems and automation
- Working cross-functionally with design engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, and program management to align test capability with development timelines and production schedules
- Collaborating with design teams early in development to influence testability requirements and built-in test capability
- Establishing and maintaining test engineering standards, processes, and documentation
- Driving test automation strategy to increase throughput and improve test coverage
- Partnering with quality engineering on first-pass yield goals and defect containment
- Managing the test equipment roadmap, including selection, procurement, qualification, and lifecycle management
- Building robust data acquisition and analysis capabilities for data-driven quality decisions
- Supporting transfer of test capability to new production sites
- Managing budgets and forecasting future test engineering needs
- Serving as escalation point for complex test failures and production-blocking issues
- Travel to production sites and supplier facilities as needed (<10%)
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field
- 6+ years of experience in test engineering, manufacturing engineering, or 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
- 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 ability to drive root cause analysis on complex test failures
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, working effectively at all organizational levels
- Experience managing budgets, equipment procurement, and vendor relationships for test engineering programs
- Knowledge of configuration management and version control practices for test software and firmware
- Appropriate security clearance classification
