# Manufacturing Test Engineering Manager

**Company**: Graphcore
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Test Engineering Manager to lead the development and execution of the end-to-end manufacturing test strategy for next-generation AI server platforms and datacenter infrastructure.

This role is responsible for defining and driving the manufacturing test architecture from L6 board assembly through L11 rack-level integration and final system validation, ensuring world-class product quality, manufacturability, and production scalability.

The leader will manage a team of 3–5 Manufacturing Test Engineers while partnering closely with Hardware, Firmware, Platform, Validation, Quality, Operations, and Joint Design Manufacturing (JDM) partners.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Manufacturing Test Strategy: Define and own the end-to-end manufacturing test strategy from L6 board assembly through L11 rack integration.

- Develop standardized manufacturing test methodologies that optimize quality, throughput, cost of test, and scalability across multiple products and JDM sites.

- Establish manufacturing test standards, best practices, and engineering processes that support high-volume server manufacturing.

- Technical Leadership & People Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 3–5 Manufacturing Test Engineers supporting multiple hardware programs.

- Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and ensure successful execution of manufacturing test deliverables.

- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration: Partner with Hardware, Platform, Firmware, Validation, Reliability, Quality, and Operations teams to ensure manufacturing test coverage aligns with product design intent and customer quality expectations.

- Lead Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) reviews to ensure products are optimized for efficient, high-quality manufacturing.

- JDM Partnership & Manufacturing Execution: Serve as the primary technical interface with JDM partners for manufacturing test strategy, implementation, and production readiness.

- Lead technical reviews covering manufacturing readiness, test coverage, infrastructure, yield performance, capacity planning, and corrective actions.

- Manufacturing Infrastructure & Capacity Planning: Define the manufacturing test infrastructure required to support high-volume production.

- Work with JDM partners to establish manufacturing capacity plans, optimize factory layouts, and ensure sufficient test throughput to meet production demand.

- Quality & Continuous Improvement: Define and monitor key manufacturing metrics, including First Pass Yield (FPY), retest rate, manufacturing escapes, test cycle time, and throughput.

- Lead cross-functional root cause investigations and drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing test engineering, production engineering, or hardware manufacturing.

- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including leading and developing technical teams.

- Extensive experience supporting high-volume server, storage, networking, or AI infrastructure manufacturing.

- Proven experience developing manufacturing test strategies from board-level (L6) through rack-level (L11) manufacturing.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline.

- Experience supporting hyperscale cloud or AI infrastructure manufacturing.

- Experience with Python or Bash scripting for manufacturing automation.

- Familiarity with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), factory analytics, and statistical process control.

- Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma certification.

**Success Measures**

- Deployment of a scalable manufacturing test strategy spanning L6 through L11.

- Comprehensive manufacturing test coverage aligned with product design intent and customer quality objectives.

- Robust manufacturing test infrastructure and capacity supporting production volume without constraining throughput.

- Improved first-pass yield, reduced manufacturing escapes, and shorter test cycle times.

- Strong technical partnerships with internal engineering organizations and JDM manufacturing partners.

- Continuous improvement of manufacturing quality through effective integration of field and data center feedback into manufacturing test strategies.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Manufacturing Test Engineering
- Production Engineering
- Hardware Manufacturing
- ICT
- MDA
- Board Functional Test
- System and Rack-Level Manufacturing Test
- Manufacturing diagnostics
- Linux-based manufacturing environments
- Automated manufacturing test systems
- Server hardware architecture
- Firmware
- BIOS/BMC
- Networking
- Power systems

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Python or Bash scripting for manufacturing automation
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Factory analytics
- Statistical process control
- Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma certification

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