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About Flex (Flextronics)
Flex (formerly Flextronics) is a global technology, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions provider helping companies design, build, and deliver products across industries. Industry: Electronics Manufacturing Services
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The Director, Engineering Labs & Validation Operations leads the engineering laboratory strategy, validation infrastructure, and test operations for next-generation AI data center platforms. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this leader oversees the planning, expansion, and continuous improvement of laboratory environments used to validate electrical systems, power infrastructure, cooling solutions, controls, compute platforms, and modular infrastructure products. Daily responsibilities include leading multidisciplinary teams, establishing scalable validation capabilities for rack-level and facility-scale systems, and defining laboratory roadmaps and investment plans. The role requires expertise in electrical power systems, liquid cooling, automation, controls, instrumentation, data acquisition, and reliability engineering. Key tasks involve driving lab automation, managing capital investments, and overseeing prototype, qualification, reliability, performance, compliance, and certification testing for complex hardware and mission-critical systems.
Drive lab automation, digital instrumentation, data acquisition, analytics, and AI-enabled test environments.
Monitor lab utilization, schedules, capital investments, operating expenses, safety, and productivity performance.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
12+ years of experience in engineering, validation, testing, laboratory operations, product development, and technical leadership.
Proven leadership of engineering organizations supporting complex hardware, data center infrastructure, AI/HPC platforms, or other mission-critical systems.
Extensive experience managing engineering laboratories, validation environments, technical facilities, test operations, and certification activities.
Strong technical knowledge of electrical power systems, liquid cooling, automation and controls, instrumentation, data acquisition, reliability engineering, and validation methodologies.
Demonstrated success managing capital investments, operating budgets, laboratory assets, capacity planning, and resource allocation while driving operational excellence.
Proven ability to build and lead high-performing technical teams and influence executive stakeholders.
Test Automation
Reliability Testing
Data Acquisition
Root-Cause Analysis
DVT
Design Verification Testing
Regression Testing
Certification Testing
Digital Twins
Systems Engineering
Instrumentation
Test Infrastructure
Product Qualification
Control Systems
Data Pipelines