Quality & Reliability Engineer Team Lead

Requirements

• A highly technical, practical leader who thrives at the intersection of hands‑on engineering and people management. If you are a Quality Manager who prefers filling out spreadsheets and managing a purely administrative role, this is not the position for you
• You are someone who rolls up their sleeves, dives into the engineering details, and leads by example to help a multidisciplinary team build robust, high‑quality hardware products
• Practical Engineering Experience: A strong, hands‑on engineering background (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline) with extensive "on‑the‑bench" experience
• Reliability Expertise: Proven experience implementing HALT/HASS testing and translating stress‑testing data into actual product design improvements
• Root‑Cause Mastery: Exceptional skills in engineering investigation and root‑cause analysis, with the ability to guide a team through complex technical troubleshooting
• Cross‑Functional Literacy: The ability to understand and speak the language of mechanical, electrical, and software test engineers seamlessly
• Pragmatic Leadership: Experience leading small teams of engineers with a collaborative, supportive style that balances strict quality standards with product delivery timelines

What the job involves

• Technical Authority: Serve as the ultimate technical authority and "go‑to" person for establishing confidence ratings on product development risks and defining engineering mitigation actions
• Reliability Champion: Bring a deep, specialized focus to hardware reliability across the product lifecycle, shifting the team toward proactive physics‑of‑failure engineering
• Team Leadership: Successfully manage, mentor, and coordinate a highly technical, cross‑functional team of 4 engineers spanning NPI and production test equipment development
• People Management: Lead a team of 4 people: 2 Development‑focused Quality Engineers (1 Electrical and 1 Mechanical Engineer), and 2 Test Engineers developing custom test equipment primarily for QC in production
• Hardware Reliability: Bring a strong focus to hardware reliability, taking ownership of methodologies such as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening)
• Engineering Investigations: Take the lead on deep‑dive engineering investigations of technical issues arising from both early product development and the field
• Validation Strategy: Help bring best practices to the definition and documentation of the product validation plan, test strategy, and test coverage
• Execution & Coordination: Plan, estimate costs, and coordinate all product validation and test development activities
• Technical Files: Take full ownership of technical files, ensuring they are accurate, complete, and engineering‑backed