Senior Staff Lab Manager

Lab Strategy & Infrastructure

• Own the overall vision, architecture, and roadmap for engineering laboratory infrastructure.
• Design, build, and commission new laboratory spaces to support evolving engineering programs.
• Define standards for laboratory layout, power distribution, networking, cooling, safety, security, and scalability.
• Develop long-term modernization plans to ensure laboratory capabilities remain aligned with engineering needs.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and automation to improve laboratory efficiency and reliability.

Lab Operations

• Own day-to-day laboratory operations across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Develop scheduling processes that maximize lab utilization while minimizing conflicts and downtime.
• Plan and coordinate preventative maintenance, calibration, repairs, and equipment lifecycle management.
• Manage laboratory uptime, availability, and operational readiness.
• Establish operational metrics, KPIs, and reporting for lab performance.

Engineering Systems & Integration

• Support complex hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), integration, and validation environments.
• Develop laboratory standards for networking, compute infrastructure, storage, instrumentation, and data acquisition.
• Partner with engineering teams to architect robust development and test environments.
• Ensure laboratories support rapid system integration and reproducible testing.

Leadership

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of lab engineers, infrastructure engineers, and technicians.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow high-performing technical staff.
• Prioritize work across multiple concurrent engineering programs.
• Establish standard operating procedures, documentation, and best practices.
• Foster a culture of safety, ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Hardware, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Systems, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering organizations.
• Partner with IT, Facilities, Security, and EH&S teams to deliver reliable and secure laboratory environments.
• Manage vendor relationships for laboratory equipment, infrastructure, and service providers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience supporting complex engineering laboratories or technical infrastructure.
• 5+ years of technical leadership or people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building engineering labs from concept through deployment.
• Strong understanding of laboratory infrastructure, including power distribution, network architecture, server and storage systems, instrumentation, environmental controls, and safety systems.
• Experience managing equipment lifecycle, maintenance, calibration, upgrades, and modernization.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
• Laboratory infrastructure design and architecture.
• System-level engineering and integration.
• Networking (Ethernet, VLANs, managed switches, routing).
• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and Software-in-the-loop (SIL) systems.
• Asset management and inventory systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting robotics, aerospace, defense, automotive, or autonomous systems development.
• Experience with secure laboratory environments and classified or regulated development environments.
• Knowledge of systems engineering processes and system architecture.
• Experience implementing laboratory automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Familiarity with cloud-connected engineering workflows and hybrid infrastructure.
• Programming and scripting experience: Python, MATLAB, C/C++.