Manager, Manufacturing Test Engineering
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 146,000-194,000 · 6+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Sep 23, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 146,000-194,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril’s Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a Manager of Manufacturing Test Engineering to lead a multi-disciplinary test engineering team supporting autonomous aircraft, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions.
- This is a critical leadership role responsible for ensuring that every product shipped has been rigorously tested, validated, and accepted through production-grade test systems that scale with programs.
- The manager will oversee a team of approximately 16 engineers spanning firmware, hardware, software, electrical, and data acquisition disciplines to design, develop, deploy, and maintain test systems and automation.
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 including 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.
Requirements
- 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 including 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.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in engineering or a related field.
- Experience in aerospace or defense production test environments, particularly with qualified or flight-critical hardware.
- Familiarity with AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems and their implications for test process control.
- Experience standing up test capabilities at new production sites or scaling test infrastructure for rate production.
- Background in boundary scan (JTAG), in-circuit test (ICT), functional test, environmental stress screening (ESS), or system-level acceptance test.
- Experience with test data analytics, statistical process control, or automated reporting pipelines.
- Knowledge of configuration management and version control practices for test software and firmware.
- Appropriate clearance classification.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package supported at little to no cost to employees ensuring health and recovery support
Workplace
- Travel to production sites, suppliers, and partner facilities as needed
Skills
- LabVIEW
- TestStand
- Python
- Boundary Scan
- JTAG
- In-circuit Test
- ICT
- Environmental Stress Screening
- ESS
- Firmware
- Data Acquisition
