Director, Test and Product Engineering

About Us

Menlo Micro is setting a new standard for electronic switches with its breakthrough Ideal Switch® technology—the first major innovation in over 30 years. This chip-scale platform overcomes the performance and scalability limits of traditional switches, enabling smaller, faster, more reliable, and energy-efficient systems. From AI data centers and quantum computing to aerospace, defense, and power electronics, Menlo Micro’s technology removes bottlenecks, lowers total cost of ownership, and unlocks new possibilities across the most demanding applications.

We’re looking for talented, driven individuals who want to make a real impact. Join a collaborative, fast-paced team backed by industry leaders, and help build cutting-edge technology that is shaping the future of electronics.

Role Summary and Purpose

The Director, Test and Product Engineering will lead a team responsible for defining, developing, and deploying test strategies for advanced MEMS switch products. This role requires strong technical expertise in MEMS or semiconductor test methodologies, leadership in managing cross-functional teams, and strategic vision to scale test infrastructure to meet quality, yield, and cost targets. 

As manager of the New Product Introduction (NPI) Test Team, you will play a critical role in developing cutting-edge, ATE test solutions for both wafer and package-level tests. Additionally, you will develop reliability test systems to support product qualification. You will be directly responsible for all aspects of the production test development process and ensure timely development and release-to-production of Menlo Micro test solutions. You will work together with a team of test, design, packaging, product and application engineers in both the power and RF product lines.

Additionally, you will manage the NPI Product Engineering Manager. In this role you will ensure the product and test engineers are working together to release products through characterization and test capability. New product engineers lead products by partnering with design engineers and work with New Technology Introduction (NTI) regarding yields, failure analysis, characterization and qualification. The product engineers will verify new test programs, communicate and address issues with solutions as the devices are validated to the specifications targeted.

You will report to the Vice President of the NPI team and collaborating with various departments throughout the company. You will directly impact critical roadmaps, create new product test solutions and close Phase 4 in our phase gate process to release new products to production. Projects will encompass portions of design, characterization, packaging test, RF, electrical, mechanical, and test considerations, along with data analysis, reliability testing, and root cause problem solving needed to validate the designs created in NPI and launch them into production.

Essential Responsibilities

This is a management role, however hands-on guidance is required. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Lead and mentor a team of test engineers in developing robust test solutions for MEMS devices 
• Define long-term test strategies aligned with product roadmap, manufacturing scalability, and cost targets with support of the test engineers in NTI team
• Drive innovation in test methodologies, automation and infrastructure to improve efficiency
• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of production test programs for wafer probe, final test and reliability-level test
• Insure DFT (Design for Test) strategies are incorporated during product design phase
• Complete validation and track new product test results and use that data to analyze readiness for qualification
• Work cross functionally to solve issues that arise in the design through qualification phase of the products
• Partner with design, NTI and quality teams to optimize test coverage, yield, characterization, capability analysis and time-to-market
• Collaborate with operations, foundries and OSATs to transfer and sustain test programs in high-volume manufacturing
• Drive continuous improvement in test cost, throughput and reliability
• Represent the Test Development organization in executive-level review and customer engagements
• Communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels, leveraging your problem solving, data analysis, and critical thinking skills.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher-level degree in electronic engineering, 12 years’ experience with at least 5 in management of a test and product engineering team
• Detailed knowledge of all aspects of ATE Production Test Development including Design-for-Test, Test Plans, HW/SW design, debug, bench correlation, GR&R/Cpk analysis, test time reduction and production release
• Proficiency in ATE software structure and programming of test systems
• Knowledge of precision Analog and mixed signal test methods
• Ability to architect new test systems
• Ability to invent creative new test solutions and methods
• Extensive knowledge of ATE hardware design including schematic capture and physical layout
• Solid understanding of ATE production package-level handler and wafer-level prober environments
• Extensive data analysis knowledge including statistical analysis – repeatability studies, GR&R analysis, Cpk analysis, ANOVA, distribution theory, hypothesis analysis – Guard banding test limits, using Excel data analysis tools for root cause analysis
• Demonstrated sound DOE practices and ability to investigate, determine root cause, and implement appropriate corrective actions using statistical data analysis methods
• Mentor team to carefully plan experiments and tests to validate ideas/theories and what expectations will be
• The ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment, including other NPI team members, NTI team, production operation, quality, design, and product engineering
• Excellent communication skills
• Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time
• Must be US person per ITAR regulations
• Desired work location is Irvine, CA.

Desired Characteristics

• Industrial experience in MEMS
• Experience with NI PXI test instrumentation
• Experience with LabVIEW and TestSTAND software
• Understanding and experience with JMP!

Salary Range:

$160,000-$180,000

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life insurance and disability Plan Options
• 401(k) with company match
• Educational Assistance Program
• Paid company-selected holidays & floating holidays
• PTO – generous time off programs
• Career growth opportunities

Menlo Microsystems, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.