Head of Production Test Engineering

About the role

The Head of Production Test Engineering will lead the team responsible for production testing of physical devices. This role ensures that tests, equipment, software, and instructions are prepared for new product launches and mass production. The position involves building a unified testing roadmap and coordinating across hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a unified production testing roadmap covering new products, product launches, mass production support, and infrastructure improvements
• Lead the engineering team, allocate resources, develop team capabilities, and balance urgent production issues with planned work
• Coordinate dependencies across hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and other teams to ensure production testing is ready for product launches
• Define production testing strategies and acceptance criteria and oversee the development and maintenance of test fixtures, equipment, software, and infrastructure
• Coordinate test deployment at factories, maintain up-to-date instructions, and work with teams to identify root causes of defects
• Analyze production test data, returns, and support cases to identify systemic issues and drive improvements to the product or manufacturing process

Required skills

• Electronics production testing
• Product lifecycle management
• Schematic reading
• Measurement equipment
• Soldering
• Automated testing
• Linux
• Python
• pytest
• Team leadership
• Resource allocation

Nice to have

• China factory production launch
• AI tools

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with electronics production testing
• Experience leading an engineering team
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies and working with factories

Benefits

• VHI
• Corporate sports
• Foreign language courses
• Therapy sessions
• Flexible working hours

About the Company

Flipper is the creator of Flipper Zero, a portable device for tech enthusiasts and engineers. The company is currently developing new products including Flipper One, an ARM-based Linux computer, and BUSY Bar, a smart productivity multi-tool.