Associate Director, Systems Test Engineering

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Recruit, technically mentor, & develop a high-performing team with a healthy culture.
• Develop verification engineering capabilities for BD, prioritizing capability growth where most critical for program success.
• Action-oriented approach with exceptional execution.
• Hands-on test method development, fixture design, execution, and analysis, along with their team.
• Lead overall program Design Verification Planning and Reporting (DVP&R) across a complex product ecosystem, involving rapidly evolving state-of-the-art designs, with cross-functionally distributed responsibilities.
• Ensure exceptional product system requirement quality to enable exceptional VV&T. Ensure clear bidirectional traceability between engineering requirements, verification plans, and results.
• Drive right-weight SEIT for optimal program performance, managing organizational evolution of an innovative, and relatively new, department within BD.
• Support system characterization and benchmarking activities.

Job requirements

• Familiarity doing V&V in a formal context. Desire to teach and instill best practices that will scale to the complexity of the product we’re building.
• Expert in translating tough-to-specify performance requirements into practical tests.
• Track record of specifying unprecedented test methods and appropriately robust test systems that yield repeatable and reproducible test results, finding failures at subsystem levels prior to system integration.
• Resource planning, credibly advocating needs to leadership, and executing according to plan.
• Exceptional communication, conflict management, and interpersonal skills.
• 10+ years of test engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading cross-disciplinary teams in the development and verification of robotic or similarly complex embedded systems.
• 5+ years directly managing managers, engineers, and technicians.