Manager, Hardware Test Engineering

Linuxconfig; Irvine, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Hardware Test Engineering Manager for its EW Manufacturing Team to oversee production test systems and ensure high-quality, scalable test operations. You will drive rigorous testing protocols and lead initiatives to improve throughput, automation, and data-driven decision making across the portfolio.

This role requires strategic oversight and tactical management to meet manufacturing's test throughput requirements while advancing automation and analytics

Qualifications

• Experience leading manufacturing test engineering teams.
• Ability to design and implement scalable test strategies across product lines.

Responsibilities

• Direct the manufacturing test engineering team, set objectives, guide initiatives, and assess team outcomes.
• Oversee and improve the manufacturing test strategy to ensure scalable operations from pre-production to production.

Skills

Test engineering leadership

Manufacturing test strategy

Automation and data analytics

Team management

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril’s Manufacturing team is seeking a Hardware Test Engineering Manager to join our team. The EW Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware for Electromagnetic Warfare. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements. As the HardwareTest Engineering Manager, your role encompasses the strategic oversight and tactical management of production systems to support high-volume products across the portfolio. You are charged with ensuring rigorous testing protocols are in place, resulting in the consistent delivery of superior quality products to our customers. Furthermore, your leadership guarantees the fulfillment of manufacturing's test throughput requirements. This position demands an innovative approach to resolving complex testing challenges, advancing scalability, and enhancing our automation, throughput, user interfaces, and data analytics methodologies.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Direct the manufacturing test engineering team, set objectives, guide initiatives, and assess team outcomes.
• Oversee and consistently contribute improvements of the manufacturing test strategy for each product to ensure scalable operations across Anduril, transitioning from pre-production to