25 director test engineering jobs at 18 companies in San Francisco, CA

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Director, Test Engineering
San Jose or Wichita or Taipei
$196k-$293k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NetApp
NetAppNASDAQ: NTAP: Sells enterprise data storage and cloud management software.
15+ YOE8+ MgmtBachelor's degree in a technical discipline, 15+ years of engineering or manufacturing test experience, and 8+ years leading managers and technical teams. Expertise in PCBA testing and global manufacturing required.
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Director, Test Engineering
San Jose or Wichita or Taipei
$196k-$293k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NetApp
NetAppNasdaq: NTAP: Provides intelligent data infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments.
15+ YOE8+ MgmtBachelor's degree and 15+ years in engineering or manufacturing test, with 8+ years leading managers and technical teams. Requires PCBA test expertise, global manufacturing experience, and quality improvement results.
In-Circuit Test (ICT), Boundary Scan Test (BST), Functional Verification Test (FVT), Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), New Product Introduction (NPI), Design for Testability (DFT), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Quality (DFQ)
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Optical Test Engineering, Senior Director
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Astera Labs
Astera LabsNASDAQ: ALAB: Designs connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure.
15+ YOE5+ Mgmt15+ years in optical engineering with 5+ years in test engineering leadership; expertise in optical transceivers, optical-electrical integration, optical characterization, signal integrity, test strategy, standards compliance, and cross-functional leadership.
COSMOS, automated test equipment (ATE), CXL, NVLink, PCIe, UALink, IEEE, IEC, Telcordia
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Director, Test Solutions Engineering Manager (West Coast Region)
Santa Clara or Irvine
$185k-$278k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Marvell
MarvellNASDAQ: MRVL: Designs and develops high-performance semiconductor and infrastructure solutions.
10+ YOEBachelor's in EE/CS,10+ years in ASIC/test/product engineering or DFT,experience leading engineering teams,strong program leadership,DFT,quality and reliability expertise.
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Director, Reliability Engineering
Menlo Park, California, United States
$200k-$265k/yr HybridFull Time
Mainspring Energy
Mainspring Energy: Manufactures fuel-flexible linear generators for onsite power generation.
10+ YOE3+ MgmtBachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or related engineering; 10+ years in reliability, test, or quality engineering; 3+ years managing people; team-building and FMEA, HALT, RCA, CAPA expertise.
FMEA, HALT, CAPA, RCA, 8D, X-ray, CT, Python, MATLAB, Weibull++, JMP, UL, NFPA, IEC
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Director of Engineering
San Francisco or Detroit
$275k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Aurelius Systems
Aurelius Systems: Building autonomous, edge-deployed directed energy laser weapon systems.
12+ YOE12+ years in engineering leadership of multi-disciplinary teams; track record taking complex hardware/software systems from R&D to production or field deployment; hands-on lab and field test experience; ability to scale teams and operate in ambiguous startup environments.
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Senior Director, Software Engineering, Storefront
San Mateo, California, United States
$265k-$331k/yr HybridFull Time
Fanatics
Fanatics: Global digital sports platform for licensed merchandise and betting.
15+ YOE7+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering leadership with 7+ years in e-commerce, expertise in modern frontend stack, micro-frontend/microservices architecture, AI/ML integration, observability, A/B testing, and global storefront scaling.
React, TypeScript, Node.js, ES6, GraphQL, REST, OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Gemini, Vector Databases, Splunk, Datadog, Amplitude, GA4, SQL, Spark, Lumen, Aspire Design System, Micro-Frontend, Microservices, iOS, Android
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Senior Director, Reliability Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$332k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
18+ YOE10+ Mgmt18+ years in board/system reliability with 5+ years on data center equipment and 10+ years leading reliability; deep reliability, testing, modeling, statistics, and physics-of-failure expertise.
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Director - Database Performance Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$221k-$387k/yr HybridFull Time
ServiceNow
ServiceNowNYSE: NOW: Enterprise cloud platform for digital workflow automation.
15+ YOE8+ Mgmt15+ years in database, performance, distributed systems, or SaaS operations; 8+ years leading managers and global teams; deep database, OS, cloud, scalability, testing, observability, and performance expertise; bachelor's or equivalent.
AI, Linux, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
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Director, Platform Engineering & Quality
Seattle or Palo Alto
$210k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
Spotnana
Spotnana: Cloud-based travel-as-a-service platform for enterprises.
Proven leadership of QA and platform teams, deep experience with test automation and distributed systems (Temporal, Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL/RDS), cloud (AWS), Kubernetes, IaC, and QA tooling (TestRail, Allure). Strong communication and cross-functional influence.
Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestRail, Allure, Temporal, Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, RDS, AWS, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence
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Senior Director, Board Product Development Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$332k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
15+ YOE8+ MgmtBachelor's in electrical engineering, materials science, or related field; 15+ years in complex electronics engineering; 8+ years leading teams and 5+ years leading leaders; expertise in board manufacturing, reliability, yield, signal integrity, and testing.
BERT
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Senior Director, Quality Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
$230k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Spring Health
Spring Health: Provides personalized mental health benefits for employees and families.
Experience leading quality engineering organizations, scalable test automation, CI/CD, AI/LLM evaluation systems, AI-assisted SDLC tools, regulated healthcare quality, and executive cross-functional leadership.
Playwright, Cypress, pytest, Jest, CI/CD, LLM, AI, ML, HIPAA, SOC 2, PHI
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Senior Director, Software Development, Test Automation
San Francisco, California, United States
$260k-$390k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences: Develops an AI platform for autonomous scientific research and discovery.
10+ YOE3+ Mgmt10+ years software engineering with 5+ years leading test automation/quality or platform functions, 3+ years managing engineers; hands-on Python/TypeScript; deep CI/CD and monorepo experience; AI-driven test automation expertise.
Python, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Nx, Turborepo, Bazel, LLMs, LIMS
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Director, New Product Development
Austin or Fremont or Lisle
$200k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
Koch Inc.
Koch Inc.: Operates global manufacturing, refining, and industrial technology businesses.
7+ YOEBachelor's in engineering, 7+ years thermal component development and program/project management experience, cold-plate design/test experience, customer engagement and executive communication skills.
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Director, Terminal Hardware
Mountain View or San Diego
OnsiteFull Time
Logos Space
Logos Space: Develops secure LEO satellite networks for enterprise connectivity.
10+ YOEMaster's (PhD preferred) in EE,10+ years RF/microwave and baseband hardware experience, team building and leadership, antenna and RF subsystem expertise, test and production experience, contract manufacturing familiarity.
SoC, FPGA
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Director, Silicon Photonics Design
Mountain View, California, United States
$227k-$307k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Aeva
AevaNYSE: AEVA: Develops 4D LiDAR sensing technology for autonomous vehicles and robotics.
5+ YOE5+ Mgmt5+ years leading design teams; strong photonics device experience; experience with complex photonics circuits, tape-outs, and test cycles; knowledge of design-for-manufacturing and reliability; experience with optical simulation and high-volume photonics components.
optical_simulation_software, foundry_design_tools, tapeout_management_tools
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Operations Director of Programs
San Jose, California, United States
$275k-$372k/yr HybridFull Time
Arm
ArmNASDAQ: ARM: Designs and licenses processor architectures and semiconductor intellectual property.
5+ YOERequires 5+ years in senior execution or technical program management with back-end silicon execution, engineering or computer science degree, SoC design exposure, and manufacturing knowledge including foundries, OSAT, and testing.
SoC, OSAT
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Business Operations Director
Wilmington or San Jose
$176k-$242k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Analog Devices
Analog DevicesNASDAQ: ADI: Designs and manufactures semiconductors for signal processing and power management.
12+ YOEBachelor’s or Master’s in engineering or supply chain; 12+ years leadership in semiconductor backend/assembly/test operations; experience negotiating MSAs, strategic sourcing, P&L ownership; knowledge of ATE and MES; strong negotiation and cross-functional leadership.
ATE, MES
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Principal Hardware Engineer / Director of Hardware
San Francisco Bay Area or United States
HybridFull Time
Arable
Arable: Provides IoT-based crop intelligence and weather monitoring solutions.
6+ YOE6+ years hardware engineering experience; full PCB design lifecycle; schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up; regulatory testing (FCC, CE); strong analytical skills; self-starter in fast-paced environment; good communication.
Schematic capture, PCB layout, Board bring-up, Regulatory testing, Embedded C, Wireless design, RTOS
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Director of Aerodynamics
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
American Turbines
American Turbines: Building compact modular gas turbines for distributed power generation.
Experience in turbomachinery aerodynamic design for compressor and turbine stages, meanline/throughflow tools, 3D CFD (ANSYS CFX, Numeca), blade parametric design, familiarity with small gas turbines or turbochargers, and experience with hardware testing.
ANSYS CFX, Numeca