- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Manufacturing
- Posted
- Jul 27, 2026
- Salary
- $146,000–$194,000 a year
Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer, Barracuda
Job description
The Barracuda Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware for the Warfighter. This responsibility includes everything in the manufacturing value-chain, including, but not limited to, Design for Manufacturability work, tool design & selection, process creation & optimization, vendor sourcing & interaction, quality planning, and work documentation associated with the hardware that the Manufacturing Engineer owns.
As a Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring that we are testing our systems to stringent standards ensuring that we are consistently shipping the highest quality products to our customers.
Job responsibilities
- Maintain ownership of test activities in production and ensuring production test flow. Provide hands-on troubleshooting efforts and resolve complex electrical issues found during testing
- Own the full test lifecycle for assigned products, from early test planning through tester development, deployment, validation, and long-term sustainment on the line
- Define what needs to be tested by deriving test requirements from system design, and collaborating with design engineers to refine test requirements
- Develop new test stations from the ground up including hands-on ownership of at least one core build discipline: test software, test electrical/instrumentation, or mechanical/fixture design, and integrate them into the…
- Author test plans, build/test sequences, and acceptance criteria for new and early-stage products, then carry them through to a released, sustainable production process
- Maintain test capabilities across the manufacturing value stream - from system level checkouts and acceptance testing to key component level in process validation
- Improve and sustain existing test systems to improve automation, consistency, total cycle time, and test coverage (DfM)
- Generate test work instructions that can be easily followed by technician team in MES. Train technicians on equipment use as required
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer, Mechanical Engineering, or related fields
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on manufacturing test and product sustainment
- Experience must span test development, test requirements definition, test plan creation, and station/tester build, in addition to production test and sustainment
- Familiarity with Linux, Ubuntu, LabVIEW, and NixOS
- Experience with contract manufacturers in the testing of PCBA/electronic assemblies. Thorough knowledge of PCBA testing standards and methods
- Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscope, function generators, spectrum analyzers, data acquisition and measurement sensors
- Strong root cause analysis skills of non-conforming hardware
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills
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