Manager, Systems Integration & Test

Team: Systems

Location: El Segundo, CA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Establish departmental objectives, operational priorities, resource strategies, and execution plans supporting organizational and business goals.
Direct systems integration, verification, qualification, and acceptance testing activities across multiple programs while ensuring technical, schedule, cost, and quality objectives are achieved.
Evaluate department performance, engineering capacity, technical execution, and organizational risks to support informed business and engineering decisions.
Lead supervisors, technical leaders, and engineering staff, establishing organizational priorities and fostering employee engagement and accountability.
Oversee workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, hiring, performance management, and talent development to ensure long-term organizational capability.
Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational discipline throughout the department.
Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management to align departmental priorities and resolve complex technical and operational challenges.
Represent the Systems Integration & Test Engineering organization during executive program reviews, customer engagements, Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), Failure Review Boards (FRBs), design reviews, and strategic planning activities.
Communicate organizational performance, resource strategies, technical risks, business impacts, and mitigation plans to engineering leadership and executive management.
Manage departmental budgets, staffing plans, laboratory resources, capital equipment, operational metrics, and long-term capability planning.
Ensure departmental compliance with configuration management, ESD controls, FOD prevention, laboratory safety, customer requirements, and AS9100 standards.
Champion continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen engineering execution, laboratory capabilities, and organizational performance.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, or a related engineering field with 7–9 years of related experience, Master's degree with 5–7 years of related experience, or PhD with 3–5 years of related experience in systems integration, test engineering, product verification, hardware validation, assembly and integration, or a related engineering discipline.
• 1–3 years of leadership or management experience leading engineering teams, technical professionals, or multidisciplinary organizations.
• Advanced knowledge of systems integration, verification, qualification, acceptance testing, and aerospace engineering methodologies.
• In-depth understanding of laboratory operations, automated test systems, instrumentation, data acquisition, and system-level verification activities.
• Comprehensive knowledge of configuration management, electrostatic discharge (ESD) controls, foreign object debris (FOD) prevention, root cause investigations, customer requirements, and AS9100 quality standards.
• Experience managing systems integration and test teams, coordinating technical resources, and overseeing test execution, qualification, acceptance, and operational performance across multiple programs.
• Proficiency in test planning, verification procedures, technical risk management, equipment utilization, and integration and test process improvement.
• Exercises sound judgment when making strategic operational, technical, personnel, and business decisions that support organizational objectives.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Test automation, instrumentation, data acquisition, and test development applications, e.g. LabVIEW, TestStand, MATLAB, Python, or equivalent applications.
• Requirements management, verification, and traceability applications, e.g. IBM DOORS, Jama Connect, or equivalent applications.
• Product lifecycle management (PLM), configuration management, test documentation, and engineering collaboration applications, e.g. Windchill, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent applications.