Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer
Pleasanton, CA · HybridJob$125–145K/yrPosted 5mo agoStill listed 3 days ago
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The company seeks a hands‑on senior manufacturing test engineer to lead calibration and end‑of‑line test operations for LiDAR products, supporting test stations, troubleshooting issues, and partnering with CM/EMS providers and cross‑functional teams to enable product launches and high‑volume manufacturing.
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Sr. Manufacturing Test Engineer Location: Pleasanton, CA
About the Role We are seeking a hands-on Sr. Manufacturing Test Engineer to lead calibration and end-of-line (EOL) test operations for LiDAR products in a production environment. In this role, you will support production test stations, troubleshoot manufacturing issues, and partner closely with CM/EMS providers and cross-functional engineering teams to enable successful product launches and high-volume manufacturing. This is an execution-focused position ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys turning complex test requirements into reliable production processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and support calibration and end-of-line (EOL) test processes for our LiDAR systems and subassemblies.
- Set up, validate, maintain, and improve production test stations, fixtures, and supporting processes.
- Execute test and calibration procedures during NPI, pilot builds, and volume production.
- Troubleshoot test failures and manufacturing issues and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Partner with CM/EMS providers and cross-functional teams including Systems, Hard-ware, Quality, Reliability, and Operations to support production readiness and ongoing manufacturing.
- Drive yield improvement, test robustness, and continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing test operations.
- Maintain test documentation, work instructions, and engineering change control records.
- Participate in DFT and DFM reviews to improve manufacturability, test coverage, and product readiness.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in manufacturing, production test, or test engineering, ideally in optics, sensors, automotive electronics, or similarly complex hardware environments.
- Hands-on experience with automated test systems, lab instrumentation, and production fixturing.
- Strong understanding of electro-optical systems, lasers, photodetectors (including APD and SPAD), and optical fundamentals.
- Experience using data analysis and statistical methods to improve yield, reliability, and test performance.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced production or manufacturing environment.
- Willingness to support builds and issue resolution at world wide CM/EMS partner sites as needed.
- Must be able to lift up to 50lbs
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LiDAR systems, optical sensors, or related electro-optical products.
- Familiarity with laser-based systems, photodetectors, and optical alignment processes.
- Exposure to automotive manufacturing, safety-critical systems, or high-reliability products.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers or EMS partners in a production
Position is onsite a minimum of 3 days at our Pleasanton, CA Office
Base Annual Salary Range: $125K-145K
How this job compares
Set against the 3,137 open Test Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$125–145K/yr
- California median$125–180K/yr678 salary ranges
- US median$104–162K/yr2,109 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $135K, is 12% below the California median midpoint ($154K) — in the middle half of Test Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 836 open Test Engineer jobs in California and 3,137 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Test Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,623 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,672 of the 3,137 open Test Engineer jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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