Quality & Reliability Test Engineer - Advanced EO/IR Systems

Every product tells a story under pressure. Help ensure advanced EO/IR systems perform reliably through temperature extremes, vibration, shock, and real-world environmental conditions.

Join a team focused on ensuring the performance, durability, and reliability of advanced electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) technologies. In this hands-on engineering role, you will lead qualification and verification testing efforts that help bring complex products from development through production with confidence.

If you enjoy solving technical challenges, working with cross-functional teams, and driving high standards in product quality, this is an opportunity to make a direct impact on innovative sensing and imaging solutions.

What you'll do

• Lead Design Verification Testing (DVT), environmental qualification testing, and ongoing reliability verification activities
• Direct day-to-day work within the internal testing laboratory and mentor Test Technicians
• Develop test plans, procedures, and methods to validate product performance and reliability
• Analyze test results and prepare detailed reports with clear conclusions and recommendations
• Coordinate and oversee testing performed by external laboratories and suppliers
• Manage testing-related logistics, including purchase orders and vendor interactions
• Review customer and contractual requirements to ensure compliance
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, sales, and customers on test strategy and results
• Support quality initiatives and Quality Management System (QMS) activities
• Drive continuous improvement in test processes, documentation, and execution

What you need

• Required: Strong communication, planning, and technical documentation skills
• Required: Experience developing, executing, and documenting qualification or reliability testing
• Required: Working knowledge of temperature, shock, and vibration testing equipment, including programming
• Required: Ability to interpret vibration profiles and technical test data
• Required: 5+ years of experience in Quality, Reliability, Test Engineering, or a related field
• Required: Familiarity with project planning tools such as Microsoft Project
• Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Advantage: Experience testing EO/IR products, MIL-STD-810 methodologies, and leading Test Technicians

What we offer

• Opportunities to work on advanced sensing and imaging technologies
• Exposure to multidisciplinary engineering teams and complex technical challenges
• A collaborative environment focused on quality and innovation
• Stability and resources as part of Teledyne Technologies
• Technical growth through hands-on testing and product development support
• Meaningful work that helps ensure product performance and customer success

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.

We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

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