Associate Manager, Hardware Test Engineering

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support a small hardware quality test team, likely including one Hardware Test Engineer and multiple Hardware QA Testers
• Serve as a hands-on technical contributor by developing, executing, and reviewing hardware test plans for new and existing products
• Assign and prioritize daily test activities, lab work, data collection, troubleshooting, and reporting across the team
• Train, mentor, and provide technical guidance to engineers, testers, technicians, and lab personnel
• Review test data, defect findings, failure analysis, and documentation to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness
• Analyze materials and data, conduct tests, troubleshoot issues, monitor performance, and ensure quality control during product development stages
• Develop and improve methods of testing, including repeatable test procedures, fixtures, jigs, and data collection processes
• Develop test plans for thermal, humidity, vibration, shock, drop/tumble, HALT/HASS, accelerated aging, durability, reliability, and other product qualification testing
• Conduct and lead root-cause analysis through Eight Disciplines (8D), fishbone analysis, 5-Why, or similar methods to drive corrective and preventive actions
• Utilize quality engineering tools and techniques such as gage R&R, SPC, DOE, Cp/Cpk, correlation analysis, and design for reliability to improve product quality and reliability
• Communicate and present defect, failure, risk, and opportunity data to cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Operations, and Contract Manufacturing teams to validate designs, manufacturing lines, and product readiness
• Analyze and recommend product readiness at EVT, DVT, MPQ, MP, and other development gates
• Support Product Risk Analysis activities, including DFMEA, PFMEA, NUDD, Lessons Learned, and high-risk item tracking prior to validating final designs
• Support QA concerns in meetings with cross-functional and project teams
• Maintain test equipment, lab organization, inventories, test supplies, and calibration needs
• Help establish team best practices for documentation, test execution, data integrity, lab safety, and issue escalation
• Provide input on performance, development, workload planning, and team capability needs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field
• Six or more (6+) years of post-graduate, hands-on technical work experience in hardware testing, quality engineering, reliability testing, manufacturing quality, or a related field
• Prior experience leading, mentoring, training, or supervising engineers, testers, technicians, or lab personnel
• Strong hands-on mechanical problem-solving and logical thinking skills
• Experience developing and executing hardware test plans based on product requirements, engineering specifications, and use cases
• Experience analyzing test data, identifying trends, troubleshooting failures, and communicating findings clearly
• Adequate self-starter, capable of working independently while making sound technical and business judgments
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong spoken and written English communication
• Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and influence teams without direct authority
• Experience with engineering drawings, test documentation, and technical reporting
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, data organization, charts, and basic statistical analysis
• Understanding of sum, max, min, average, standard deviation, confidence intervals, and other basic statistical concepts
• Able to maintain high attention to detail, including while working on repetitive or long-duration test activities
• Able to lift up to 70 lbs
• Able to travel internationally up to 20% of the time (i.e. Malaysia, China and other locations where we manufacture machines which may be determined by business needs)