Validation Engineering Manager

Pura • Pleasant Grove, UT

3d

About The Position

The Validation Engineering Manager leads the validation engineering team and remains hands-on in product validation to ensure products and systems meet requirements before release. The role plans, coordinates, and executes validation strategies and procedures, and contributes directly to test development, troubleshooting, and execution. It requires regular onsite presence in an office and laboratory environment for physical product testing, prototype builds, and collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.

The manager oversees validation of IoT devices across functional, performance, security, battery, mechanical durability, environmental, reliability, and compliance areas. The role leads and mentors a multidisciplinary team, conducts performance evaluations, allocates resources, manages multiple concurrent projects, and ensures validation work is completed on time and within budget. It also collaborates with design, product development, firmware, hardware, security, quality, and manufacturing teams, and drives improvements to team efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in validation engineering, including at least 3 years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Proven experience leading product validation teams and multidisciplinary engineers across electrical, firmware, mechanical, and compliance disciplines.
• Leadership and team management skills, including performance evaluations, mentoring, and guidance.
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of validation methodologies, test automation, and testing frameworks.
• Expertise testing electromechanical devices, including vibration, drop, shock, temperature, humidity, and corrosion assessments.
• Expertise testing Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, networking, cloud connectivity, and OTA firmware updates for IoT devices.
• Knowledge of battery validation, including battery life, safety, and efficiency testing.
• Expertise in compliance testing and regulatory requirements such as FCC, CE, and UL.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Regular onsite presence to support laboratory testing, prototype builds, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Hands-on experience with automated test frameworks, scripting languages, and tools such as Python and Jenkins or similar.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certification in validation engineering, such as Certified Quality Engineer or Certified Process Validation Professional.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
• Familiarity with risk management tools and techniques as applied to product validation.
• Familiarity with Agile or Scrum development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive validation strategies for IoT devices.
• Plan, execute, and review validation tests and data; troubleshoot product issues and resolve findings.
• Develop test methods and personally support testing for complex or high-priority programs.
• Lead, manage, mentor, and provide guidance to a multidisciplinary validation engineering team; conduct performance evaluations.
• Allocate team resources, establish clear goals and accountability, and ensure project deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with design, product development, firmware, hardware, security, quality, and manufacturing teams during development and builds.
• Plan and oversee validation activities across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance validation efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance.
• Maintain open communication among product development teams.
• Support laboratory testing and prototype builds through regular onsite work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager