Engineering Manager, Hardware Test
Long Beach, CA On-site
$150,000–$220,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
As Manager, Hardware Test Engineering, you will lead the Long Beach-based team of hardware test engineers to deliver fully tested and qualified components, developmental units, and spacecraft on aggressive timelines. You will own the test hardware, test processes, schedules, capacity planning, and the execution outcomes of hardware and environmental test. You will partner closely with engineering design teams, production teams, and other stakeholders to design the test infrastructure, planning, and processes needed to conduct testing on structural, electrical, and fluids systems under simulated space operational environments. You will be accountable for adapting test to program needs, continuously improving efficiency, automation, and process maturity to deliver the required quality at the required time. This role requires both strategic foresight and hands-on leadership: setting standards, driving automation, solving problems, and developing people to their full potential while ensuring every spacecraft meets mission assurance standards.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline.
- First-principles driven approach to engineering and problem solving backed by ability to scale analytical rigor to meet program risk levels and maturity.
- 5+ years of experience in space system, developmental system, or complex system test across electrical, mechanical, and fluids hardware.
- Environmental test experience in thermal, vacuum, vibration, electromagnetic interference / electromagnetic compatibility environments.
- Experience with space-grade and ESD sensitive component and assembly testing.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and maintain a high-performing team of engineers as well as the test equipment and facilities used to perform test.
- Work Location — this a fully onsite position based out of our Long Beach, CA office.
- Work environment —the work environment
- This position will be open until it is successfully filled.
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- 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
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