Castelion
Manager, Development Test
Torrance, CA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- Torrance, CA
19951 Mariner Ave, Torance, CA 90503 - Experience
- 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment is contingent on the ability to access applicable export-controlled information without requiring additional export licensing. If designated, the role may also require obtaining and maintaining a U.S. Government security clearance or authorization and meeting applicable citizenship or other eligibility requirements.
About the job
Leads development testing for hardware R&D, owning test strategy and systems while managing a team and tracking testing progress to improve development speed and reliability.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a team of 4–7 engineers and technicians; manage parallel test campaigns.
- Design, build, train, and operate test systems, and own testing strategy across structural, dynamic, functional, and environmental domains.
- Drive tests to failure, identify failure modes, maintain test infrastructure, and report companywide progress and priorities.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of hands-on hardware testing, prototyping, lab-based engineering, and project management experience.
- Familiarity with instrumentation, sensors, and data acquisition systems; experience leading engineering and technician teams and cross-functional execution.
- Experience writing technical reports and procedures, building test-result capture frameworks, and developing customer-aligned system-level risk and test strategies.
Nice to have
- Structural or reliability testing in aerospace, automotive, or related industries; high-rate development or rapid prototyping experience.
- Automation tools such as Python, LabVIEW, JIRA, or DEWESoft; exposure to failure analysis and reliability engineering.
Tools
Python, LabVIEW, JIRA, DEWESoft
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