Senior Quality Engineer - Compute

Atoms•San Francisco, CA

7d•$182,000 - $228,000•Onsite

About The Position

Atoms is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to build quality for our compute box build, from incoming material through the unit that ships. In this role, you will set the inspection standards, control plans, and disposition process for the line, hold the release gate on every unit, and drive defects to root cause with engineering and suppliers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
6+ years in manufacturing quality, NPI quality, or supplier quality on electronic or electromechanical hardware: PCBA, box build, harnesses.
Compute, ECU, or electronics box-build quality in automotive, autonomous vehicle, robotics, or aerospace programs.
Set up quality on a new line or new product: control plans, inspection plans, and disposition process, without an established organization behind you.
Fluency in PFMEA, control plans, 8D, 5-Why, and fishbone as working tools.
Ownership of an MRB or nonconformance disposition process.
Ability to read mechanical drawings and GD&T, schematics, and BOMs well enough to write inspection criteria from them.
Proficiency pulling and analyzing yield and defect data
Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco, with travel to supplier and contract manufacturing sites.
Floor work requires PPE, lifting up to 50 lbs, and working at rack level and on vehicles, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Responsibilities

Write the control plan and PFMEA for compute box assembly, and revise them as the process and the design change
Set incoming inspection for compute box material: PCBAs, machined and sheet-metal parts, harnesses and cables, with sampling plans and acceptance criteria matched to risk
Set in-process and outgoing inspection: what is checked, where, by whom, to what standard, and what evidence is recorded
Hold the release gate: no compute box ships without passing it, and it holds under schedule pressure
Own nonconformance: NCR intake, containment, MRB disposition, and rework instructions, with records that survive an audit
Drive root cause and corrective action on production defects with electrical, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing engineering, and verify the fix worked before closing
Own supplier quality for compute box components
Define serialization and traceability for the compute box so the build history of any fielded unit can be recovered
Define the quality metric set: first-pass yield, defects per unit by category, escape rate
Partner with manufacturing test engineering so inspection and test cover the product together, without gaps and without duplication
Feed manufacturability and inspectability issues back to design, and hold a seat in design and engineering change reviews
Build the documentation backbone the company quality management system will inherit