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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Manager, Test Operations to lead the development and production testing efforts across multiple critical space programs. This is a build role—the production test organization does not yet exist, and you will define it, hire it, and stand up its capability inside a new production facility.
You will recruit, mentor, and lead a multi-domain test organization spanning functional and electrical test, environmental test, test station and ground support equipment (GSE) engineering, and test operations. The team will grow from initial hires toward 40+ positions through the production ramp. You will own the transfer of test knowledge, procedures, and tooling from development-site test engineers into the production test team, including training, certification, and proficiency standards.
Key responsibilities include defining and owning vehicle-level and subassembly acceptance test procedures and qualification campaigns, including test flow, entrance and exit criteria, and data review gates. You will lead Test Readiness Reviews and serve as approval authority for test procedures run on flight hardware. You will own environmental test execution—thermal vacuum, sine and random vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, and EMI/EMC—including chamber and table scheduling, fixture and instrumentation readiness, and anomaly disposition.
You will drive design-for-test requirements into vehicle, payload, and subassembly designs before Critical Design Review (CDR), with the explicit objective of reducing test duration and test station count at rate. You will challenge inherited test requirements and identify tests that can be combined, moved to a lower assembly level, automated, or eliminated at acceptable risk.
You will specify production environmental test capability—chamber count and size, vibration table capacity, EMI/EMC screen rooms—and own the test capacity model behind it. You will represent test operations to leadership and customers, support proposal development and Basis of Estimate content for test scope, present at technical and milestone reviews, and brief customers and business line leadership on test readiness, capability, and risk. You will coordinate closely with Launch Operations stakeholders to ensure all System Test procedures, resources, and approval criteria are followed during launch campaigns, and deploy test personnel as needed to support, train, and oversee launch operations.
Test throughput and cost-effectiveness are the binding constraint on production rate; architecture decisions defined today will have lasting impacts to production rate success.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field
- 10+ years in spacecraft or space vehicle integration and test, including 5+ years leading test engineers or technicians
- Technical lead or manager on at least two complete environmental qualification or acceptance campaigns from procedure definition through data review and disposition
- Hands-on ownership of at least three of: thermal vacuum, sine or random vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, EMI/EMC to MIL-STD-461 or equivalent
- Managed a team of 10 or more engineers and/or technicians spanning at least two test domains (e.g., functional and electrical test plus environmental test, or test operations plus test station engineering)
- Working knowledge of a recognized space test standard such as SMC-S-016, GSFC-STD-7000 (GEVS), or MIL-STD-1540, including where you tailored it and why
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Quantified improvement in test throughput or cycle time (e.g., scaling test capacity by 3x or more, or reducing test flow duration by 20% or more)
- Authored or approved 10 or more test procedures executed on flight hardware
- Represented a test or manufacturing organization up and out: contributed to proposal and Basis of Estimate content, and briefed customers or executive leadership on readiness and risk
- Stood up an environmental test capability or a test organization from zero—chamber and table procurement, commissioning, facility interface, first-article campaigns
- Took a spacecraft or complex electromechanical product from single-digit annual builds into rate production of 100+ units per year
- Supported space vehicle test through to Launch and Operations
- Python scripting and test automation; experience with automated test execution and test data pipelines
- Operated in both classified and unclassified cleanroom environments
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret or U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance
