Integration & Test Engineering Manager
L3Harris · Yorba Linda, CA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $122k–$227k
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 9+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 29 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in Yorba Linda, CA.
- They ask for
- 9+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Root cause, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation
- Base pay
- $122k–$227k
- Day to day
- about 10% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $111k–$173k. This one lists $122k–$227k.
Median of the low and high ends of 165 live postings that list pay, out of 436 manufacturing engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 435 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 30% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (9+ vs 5+)
Typical $109k–$159k, from 143 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 50%
- New product launch 44%
- ✓ Root cause 37%
- ✓ Automation 35%
- Machining 27%
- CATIA / NX 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Python, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: L3Harris in Yorba Linda
2 other open roles at this site.
- Engineering Manager - Military GPS & Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) · Manufacturing · Manager
- Senior Specialist Quality Engineer · Quality · Senior
Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Lead and develop a team of integration engineers, test engineers, and field engineers responsible for lab and field validation activities.
- ◆Oversee development, integration, and sustainment of Special Test Equipment (STE) supporting FQT, ATP, FAT, EMI, environmental, and manufacturing test workflows.
- ◆Translate CONOPS into clear, testable system
requirements
and integration directives that guide design, implementation, and verification activities.
- ✓Direct system-level integration efforts, including test readiness reviews, configuration control, deployment planning, and execution oversight.
- ✓Manage development and improvement of automated test frameworks, including scripting, equipment drivers, debug tools, data handling, and reporting infrastructure.
- ✓Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration with engineering, quality, and production leadership for seamless test operations and rapid issue resolution.
- ✓Oversee configuration and management of complex production lab environments, including automation infrastructure, lab networks, power systems, and integrated test setups.
- ✓Provide leadership for planning, coordinating, and executing live-sky and range-based field test events in contested, degraded, and threat-representative environments.
- ✓Approve detailed field test plans, instrumentation configurations, and validation methods ensuring compliance with military requirements.
- ✓Ensure proper operation and configuration of RF/GPS/PNT instrumentation and portable field equipment used during test missions.
- ✓Guide review, interpretation, and communication of large datasets from field events; ensure accurate performance characterization and anomaly identification.
- ✓Serve as primary point of contact with external test ranges, government agencies, customers, and mission partners for field test coordination and reporting.
- ✓Maintain accountability for test asset control, calibration, configuration verification, and readiness of field test kits and specialized equipment.
- ✓Deliver high-quality technical reports, briefings, and presentations to internal leadership and external stakeholders, including customer representatives.
- ✓Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action activities across RF hardware, embedded software, digital interfaces, and environmental interactions.
- ✓Lead refinement of threat models, adversarial test profiles, and emerging operational scenarios to align with changing mission needs.
- ✓Ensure team compliance with system security practices.
- ✓Travel up to 10%.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 9+ years of relevant experience; OR graduate degree with 7+ years; OR 15+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- ✓Active U.S. Secret Clearance.
requirements
development, decomposition, traceability, and verification management.
- ✓Strong background in Python scripting, automation development, and hardware/software debugging.
- ✓Proven ability to lead complex system integration efforts and improve test automation processes.
- ✓Demonstrated experience in leading large-scale field test campaigns including planning, logistics, safety, and execution oversight.
- ✓Strong analytical skills with ability to diagnose cross-domain issues spanning RF hardware, embedded software, digital interfaces, and environmental stressors.
- ✓Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, including experience briefing leadership and customers.
- ✓Demonstrated experience serving as a Control Account Manager (CAM) with full responsibility for cost, schedule, and technical performance of assi
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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Integration & Test Engineering Manager
Job Location: Yorba Linda, CA
Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week
Job Description
The Integration & Test Manager (Level 5) provides technical and organizational leadership for system integration, test engineering, and field test operations supporting advanced military GPS and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. This role directs a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for validating product performance, resiliency, and mission readiness across lab, production, and contested field environments.
This leader ensures end‑to‑end integration maturity, drives execution of complex test campaigns, and maintains alignment with military performance standards and mission requirements. The manager interfaces directly with systems engineering, hardware, software, firmware, production, and program management teams while coordinating externally with government partners, test ranges, and mission stakeholders.
Navigation Solutions products support warfighters in denied or degraded environments. This role plays a critical part in ensuring receivers, simulators, and PNT subsystems maintain reliability and mission effectiveness under adversarial conditions such as jamming, spoofing, and interference.
Preferred Additional Skills
- +Direct leadership experience managing integration and test engineering teams.
- +Deep understanding of RF fundamentals, interference effects, GPS/PNT signal characteristics, jamming/spoofing mechanisms, and field test operations.
- +Extensive experience using IBM DOORS for
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