Integration, Verification & Test Engineering Manager (GPS/PNT)

Location: Yorba Linda, California, US. Onsite role with a preferred 4/10 schedule: four 10-hour workdays per week. Travel up to 10%.

Salary: $122,000–$227,000 per year.

Company

Defense technology company delivering end-to-end solutions across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains for national security missions.

What you will do

• Lead integration, test, and field engineering teams validating military GPS/PNT products across laboratory, production, and contested field environments.
• Direct system integration activities, test readiness reviews, configuration control, deployment planning, and execution oversight.
• Oversee Special Test Equipment, automated test frameworks, equipment drivers, debug tools, data handling, and reporting infrastructure.
• Plan and execute live-sky and range-based field tests, including instrumentation, logistics, safety, validation methods, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate with systems, hardware, software, firmware, quality, production, government, customer, and test-range stakeholders.
• Lead root-cause analysis, anomaly identification, threat-model refinement, corrective actions, and technical reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 9+ years of relevant experience, a graduate degree with 7+ years, or 15+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active U.S. Secret Clearance required.
• U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
• Experience leading integration and test engineering teams and complex system integration efforts.
• Strong knowledge of RF fundamentals, GPS/PNT signals, interference, jamming, spoofing, and field test operations.
• Experience with Python, test automation, hardware/software debugging, IBM DOORS, and cross-domain technical analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience leading large-scale field test campaigns and serving as a Control Account Manager.
• Knowledge of EVMS, cost accounts, budgets, schedules, basis of estimates, and performance metrics.
• Experience briefing leadership, customers, government agencies, and mission partners.
• Flexible work schedule availability; a 4/10 schedule is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and engaging environment focused on professional growth, mission success, and work-life balance.
• Health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, and employee assistance program.
• Education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
• Employment is subject to background checks and, where applicable, government security investigations.