Senior Quality Engineer
Acuity
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $83,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Support quality planning during the earliest phases of the Product Development Process (PDP)
- Build strong foundations for design quality through structured risk management, lessons learned application, and critical design reviews
- Apply APQP tools such as FMEA, control plans, and drawing reviews
- Contribute to new product reliability and manufacturability
- Support early risk management activities: lessons learned gathering, FMEA facilitation, and tracking mitigations in collaboration with design engineering
- Participate in cross-functional design reviews (Electrical, Mechanical, and Systems) to identify how critical requirements are validated and provide feedback from a quality perspective
- Collaborate with engineering to review engineering drawings to ensure critical design aspects are properly identified, tolerance-checked, and marked for downstream quality control
- Support preparation of Quality Plans and part qualification activities for prototype builds and transition to supplier quality
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering Discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or related field)
- 5+ years of industry experience in product development, manufacturing, or in a quality-related role
- Experience with APQP tools (FMEA, SPC, PPAP)
- Experienced with process control practices in operations: PCBA assembly, plastic injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, system assembly, and test (desired)
- Understanding of mechanical design principles, tolerancing, and qualification for new parts and assemblies
- Experience with structured problem solving (8D) and data analysis
- Communication: being able to summarize and provide project meeting level communication