Director, Engineering Labs & Validation Operations

Flex (Flextronics)

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Austin, TX
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14 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Director, Engineering Labs & Validation Operations

The Director, Engineering Labs & Validation Operations leads the engineering laboratory strategy, validation infrastructure, test operations, and technical facility capabilities for next-generation AI data center platforms. This role oversees the planning, operation, expansion, and continuous improvement of environments used to validate electrical systems, power infrastructure, cooling solutions, controls, compute platforms, and integrated system architectures. You will manage multidisciplinary teams across lab operations, validation engineering, test engineering, and technical services while establishing scalable capabilities for rack-level, cluster-level, and facility-scale systems. Key responsibilities include defining laboratory roadmaps, managing capital investments, and driving automation, data acquisition, and AI-enabled test environments. The role requires expertise in electrical power systems, liquid cooling, instrumentation, reliability engineering, and validation methodologies to support prototype qualification, performance testing, and certification for mission-critical infrastructure products within the high-performance computing and data center domain.

What you'll do

  • Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for engineering labs and validation operations.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams across lab operations, validation engineering, test engineering, and technical services.
  • Establish scalable validation capabilities for rack-level, cluster-level, and facility-scale systems.
  • Oversee prototype, qualification, reliability, performance, compliance, and certification testing activities.
  • Manage laboratory roadmaps, capacity models, investment plans, operating budgets, and asset utilization strategies.
  • Define engineering standards, safety requirements, validation methodologies, and governance processes.
  • Drive lab automation, digital instrumentation, data acquisition, and AI-enabled test environments.
  • Monitor lab performance metrics including utilization, capital investments, and operational expenses.

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 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, controls, instrumentation, and data acquisition.
  • Expertise in reliability engineering and various validation methodologies.
  • Demonstrated success managing capital investments, operating budgets, laboratory assets, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
  • Proven ability to build high-performing technical teams and influence executive stakeholders.

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