Senior Manager-Test Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of test engineers responsible for manufacturing test and product validation of high-voltage power electronics products.
• Provide technical guidance and set direction on test architecture, methodology, and execution while empowering engineers to own their domains.
• Owning the end-to-end strategy and execution for manufacturing test and product validation, including test coverage, accuracy, cycle time, cost, and scalability for volume production.
• Oversee the design, build, validation, and deployment of test systems for high-voltage, high-current power electronics, ensuring systems are delivered on time and meet performance targets.
• Ensure high test system uptime across prototype labs, pre-production, and manufacturing environments. Design a structure to drive rapid response and root-cause resolution when testers go down and establish preventive maintenance and reliability practices.
• Own the test lab - its layout, equipment, calibration cadence, safety standards, capacity planning, and day-to-day operations.
• Drive the definition of manufacturing test specifications for volume production, partnering with operations, design, quality, and reliability teams.
• Partner with the program management team to plan resources and align on milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across the broader engineering organization.
• Collaborate closely with EE design, ME design, and firmware teams to influence DFT, investigate failures, and drive product improvements from first principles.
• Drive continuous improvement of test efficiency, coverage, and automation — championing investments in tooling and automated test infrastructure that scale with volume.
• Establish frameworks for test requirements decomposition, acceptance criteria, and program execution that scale with the company.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years of engineering experience in test engineering, validation, or power electronics hardware development, with at least 4 years in a people-leadership role managing technical teams.
• Strong hands-on background in test engineering for power electronics, including high-voltage, high-power conversion systems.
• Solid understanding of PCBA schematics, hardware debug, and the use of oscilloscopes, multimeters, power analyzers, and other lab instrumentation.
• Proven track record leading the design, build, and deployment of manufacturing test systems and product validation programs, ideally from prototype through volume production.
• Demonstrated success running and scaling a test lab, including managing uptime, calibration, safety, and capacity.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional partners in EE design, ME design, firmware, manufacturing, and program management.
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong technical talent; able to provide credible technical guidance to senior and staff engineers.
• Able to drive action grounded in first-principles thinking, with entrepreneurial ownership in a high-growth environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%, including internationally.