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
