Senior Director, Data Center Validation & Test

Flex; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex in Austin, TX seeks a Sr. Director, Validation Test Engineering to establish SpinCo’s validation capability for data center platforms.

You will define validation strategies, test plans, and lab capabilities while leading a hands-on team responsible for test data infrastructure. This role requires extensive experience with power, cooling, controls, and high-reliability hardware, and a proven ability to move products from prototype to production readiness through close collaboration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of validation, test engineering, systems engineering, product qualification, or reliability engineering experience.
• Experience validating complex electromechanical systems, power systems, cooling systems, controls, data center infrastructure, or high-reliability hardware platforms.
• Strong knowledge of DVT, reliability testing, test automation, instrumentation, data acquisition, certification testing, root-cause analysis, and development lifecycle gates.
• Experience standing up lab capabilities, test infrastructure, or product development facilities.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and customers to move products from prototype to production readiness.
• Hands-on test design and execution background, having built test setups, instrumentation, and data pipelines yourself rather than only overseeing them.

Responsibilities

• Define validation strategies, test plans, test standards, and acceptance criteria for advanced power, advanced cooling, control systems, and integrated platform offerings.
• Stand up and operate test and characterization labs required to validate rack-level, pod-level, and platform-level performance and reliability.
• Gate products through development lifecycle milestones from concept to design/development, validation, production introduction, and release.
• Drive design verification testing, reliability testing, automated testing, regression testing, certification planning, and design-for-test requirements.
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, and BUs on production-readiness reviews, first-article inspections, ramp readiness, and factory test alignment.
• Build test data infrastructure that feeds back into design, predictive maintenance models, digital twins, qualification data, and complex controls systems.
• Engage directly with customers and partners to understand performance, reliability, interoperability, and qualification requirements for AI data center infrastructure.

Skills

Validation strategy

Test plan development

Lab setup / test infrastructure

Leadership

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Systems/Computer Engineering or related

Tools

Test automation tools

Data acquisition systems

Certification testing

Job description

Flex in Austin, TX seeks a Sr. Director, Validation Test Engineering to establish SpinCo’s validation capability for data center platforms.

You will define validation strategies, test plans, and lab capabilities while leading a hands-on team responsible for test data infrastructure. This role requires extensive experience with power, cooling, controls, and high-reliability hardware, and a proven ability to move products from prototype to production readiness through close collaboration with