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Salary: USD 190,000 - 230,000 / annual
Amperesand is building intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products based on advanced medium-voltage Solid State Transformer technology. The company addresses a critical infrastructure gap: electricity demand is skyrocketing due to AI data centers, electric vehicles, and industrial growth, yet power infrastructure hasn't meaningfully evolved in nearly 100 years. Amperesand's hardware and software solutions are faster to deploy, more efficient, and capable of supporting dynamic modern energy needs.
As Senior Test Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of test engineers responsible for manufacturing test and product validation of high-voltage power electronics products. You own the end-to-end strategy and execution for test systems across prototype, pre-production, and volume production stages. Your responsibilities include:
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of test engineers, providing technical guidance on test architecture, methodology, and execution while empowering engineers to own their domains.
• Own the complete strategy for manufacturing test and product validation, including test coverage, accuracy, cycle time, cost, and scalability for volume production.
• Oversee design, build, validation, and deployment of test systems for high-voltage, high-current power electronics, ensuring on-time delivery and performance targets.
• Ensure high test system uptime across prototype labs, pre-production, and manufacturing environments; design structures for rapid response and root-cause resolution; establish preventive maintenance and reliability practices.
• Own the test lab operations: layout, equipment, calibration cadence, safety standards, capacity planning, and day-to-day management.
• Drive definition of manufacturing test specifications for volume production in partnership with operations, design, quality, and reliability teams.
• Partner with program management on resource planning, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across engineering.
• Collaborate with EE design, ME design, and firmware teams to influence design-for-test, investigate failures, and drive product improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement of test efficiency, coverage, and automation; champion investments in tooling and automated test infrastructure that scale with volume.
• Establish frameworks for test requirements decomposition, acceptance criteria, and program execution.
The role requires 5 days per week on-site in San Francisco with up to 10% travel, including internationally.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years of engineering experience in test engineering, validation, or power electronics hardware development, with at least 4 years in a people-leadership role managing technical teams.
• Strong hands-on background in test engineering for power electronics, including high-voltage, high-power conversion systems.
• Solid understanding of PCBA schematics, hardware debug, and lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power analyzers, etc.).
• Proven track record leading design, build, and deployment of manufacturing test systems and product validation programs, ideally from prototype through volume production.
• Demonstrated success running and scaling a test lab, including managing uptime, calibration, safety, and capacity.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional partners in EE design, ME design, firmware, manufacturing, and program management.
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong technical talent; able to provide credible technical guidance to senior and staff engineers.
• Ability to drive action grounded in first-principles thinking with entrepreneurial ownership in a high-growth environment.
