FluidStack

QA Engineer

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of supplier quality engineers across manufacturing and data center infrastructure disciplines.
• Set team priorities, manage workload distribution, and drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the organizational subject matter expert (SME) on supplier quality, providing guidance to cross-functional stakeholders including procurement, engineering, and construction teams.
• Represent the supplier quality function in leadership reviews, program planning, and executive escalations.
• Develop and manage KPI's and Metrics.
• Support customer executive business reviews.
• Lead supplier qualification, audits, and ongoing performance management for both manufactured components and data center building materials/systems.
• Develop and enforce quality control plans, inspection criteria, and acceptance standards for in-house production lines.
• Partner with external data center general contractors and subcontractors to establish quality expectations and monitor compliance throughout construction.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) processes for non-conformances across manufacturing and infrastructure suppliers.
• Define and track supplier KPIs (defect rates, on-time delivery, audit scores); escalate and remediate underperforming suppliers.
• Collaborate with procurement and engineering teams during new supplier onboarding and new product/facility introduction.
• Support tier-two supplier development initiatives, including capability assessments and capacity planning.
• Maintain quality documentation in compliance with relevant standards (ISO 9001, IPC, ASHRAE, etc.).

Lead Supplier Quality Engineer