Senior Manager, Test Operations, Space

The role

The Senior Manager, Test Operations will build and lead a test organization for space vehicle manufacturing and production. This role involves defining test capabilities, hiring a multi-domain team, and managing environmental test execution and design-for-test requirements.

What you will do

• Recruit, mentor and lead a multi-domain test organization
• Transfer test knowledge, procedures and tooling from development to production
• Coordinate with Launch Operations stakeholders
• Deploy Test personnel to support and oversee launch operations
• Define vehicle-level and subassembly acceptance test procedures and qualification campaigns
• Lead Test Readiness Reviews and test campaign readiness assessments
• Own environmental test execution including thermal vacuum, vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, and EMI/EMC
• Drive design-for-test requirements into vehicle, payload and subassembly designs
• Specify production environmental test capability and own the test capacity model
• Support proposal development and brief customers and leadership on test readiness

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics or a related technical field
• 10+ years in spacecraft or space vehicle integration and test
• 5+ years leading test engineers or technicians
• Technical lead or manager on at least two complete environmental qualification or acceptance campaigns
• 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
• Working knowledge of a recognized space test standard such as SMC-S-016, GSFC-STD-7000 (GEVS) or MIL-STD-1540
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• A quantified improvement in test throughput or cycle time
• Authored or approved 10 or more test procedures executed on flight hardware
• Has represented a test or manufacturing organization up and out
• Stood up an environmental test capability or a test organization from zero
• Took a spacecraft or complex electromechanical product 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

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

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.