Manager, Manufacturing Test Engineering

The role

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team of approximately 16 engineers. You will design, develop, and maintain test systems, fixtures, and automation for autonomous aircraft, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions.

What you will do

• Lead and manage a team of ~16 manufacturing test engineers.
• Own the manufacturing test strategy across AD&S programs.
• Drive development and deployment of production test systems, fixtures, and automation.
• Work cross-functionally with design, quality, operations, supply chain, and program management.
• Collaborate with design engineering to influence testability requirements.
• Establish and maintain test engineering standards, processes, and documentation.
• Drive test automation strategy.
• Partner with quality engineering for first-pass yield and root cause investigation.
• Manage the test equipment roadmap including procurement and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain data acquisition and analysis capabilities.

Required 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.
• At least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
• 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.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations.
• Understanding of test strategies across the product lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing budgets, equipment procurement, and vendor relationships.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Nice to have

• 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.
• Experience standing up test capabilities at new production sites or scaling test infrastructure.
• 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

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.