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Manager, Test Operations
Apptronik · Austin, TX · Posted 10 days ago
Apptronik is building advanced humanoid robots at scale, and manufacturing test is a critical part of ensuring reliability, quality, and production readiness across all robot subsystems.
We are seeking a Manager, Test Operations to be a hands-on technical leader to drive development, maintainability, and scalable hardware and software integrated solutions used for manufacturing and validation testing of robotic systems. This role will work closely with test and validation engineers, systems engineers, firmware developers, manufacturing, and operations teams to implement robust and maintainable test infrastructure supporting products from early NPI through production ramp.
This is a highly hands-on role focused on test automation, systems integration and manufacturing support in a fast-paced robotics environment.
Manufacturing Test Development
- Lead the team that deploys manufacturing test software and hardware for:
- Electromechanical subassemblies
- Full robot system testing
- Ensure the team develops scalable and modular test frameworks used across multiple test stations and product lines
- Focus the team on delivering automated functional tests, hardware validation tools, and diagnostic utilities to the manufacturing floor.
- Establish criteria for APIs and interfaces between test software and hardware systems
- Own the testing process reliability, maintainability, and deployment consistency across manufacturing environments
- Champion flawless integration of:
- Firmware interfaces
- Sensors and actuators
- Motion control systems
- Data acquisition hardware
- Establish technical direction for hardware bring-up, debug activities, troubleshooting and communication issues in manufacturing environments
- Collaborate with test and validation engineering teams to ensure products are designed with testability and manufacturability in mind
- Drive best practices and process improvements within the test organization
- Ensure test documentation, procedures, and architecture diagrams are maintained
- Implement code reviews and software release processes (CI/CD)
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