System Quality Engineer

QualityAI • Santa Clara, CA

2d • $110,000 - $125,000 • Remote

About The Position

The System Quality Engineer (SQE) for Hardware-Only projects is responsible for providing independent quality governance, assurance, and oversight across the project lifecycle. This role ensures that project risks, health status, and validation evidence are accurately represented, visible, and aligned with actual conditions. The SQE serves as a quality subject matter expert (SME) and advisor, reinforcing accountability with Project Managers (PMs) and project teams while identifying and escalating risks, gaps, and recurring issues. This position maintains clear boundaries between oversight and execution, ensuring project teams retain delivery ownership.

Requirements

• Experience in project quality assurance, governance, or systems engineering
• Strong understanding of risk management, project lifecycle, and quality processes
• Experience working with project tracking and reporting tools (e.g., ADO, ServiceNow, or similar)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Quality Management, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting hardware-only or infrastructure-focused projects
• Familiarity with governance frameworks, audit processes, and compliance standards
• Experience with requirements traceability, validation practices, or quality reporting tools
• Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional and matrixed environments

Responsibilities

• Perform regular project health assessments to validate alignment between reported and actual conditions
• Provide independent oversight of project quality, risk visibility, and governance processes
• Monitor key governance artifacts (RIDAC, PHA, compliance metrics) for accuracy and completeness
• Review project risk and issue tracking (RIDAC) for quality, aging, categorization, and visibility
• Identify incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate data and flag for PM correction
• Escalate recurring or unresolved issues to maintain transparency and accountability
• Ensure ownership of risk and issue management remains with the Project Manager
• Validate Project Health Assessment (PHA) against verified project conditions
• Identify and challenge misalignment between reported status and actual progress
• Support consistent and accurate quality reporting (e.g., weekly updates)
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and inconsistencies
• Differentiate between isolated issues and systemic patterns
• Escalate recurring issues and support corrective action through governance channels
• Define and maintain quality documentation standards, templates, and runbooks
• Ensure validation evidence requirements are clearly established and understood
• Support audit readiness by ensuring documentation is accessible and complete
• Verify that validation activities have been completed and are supported by evidence
• Confirm documentation demonstrates: What was validated, Who performed validation, When validation occurred
• Escalate gaps in validation evidence or documentation
• Provide guidance to PMs and project teams on quality expectations and governance standards
• Reinforce accountability and role clarity across project teams
• Redirect execution-related requests to appropriate owners

Benefits

• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Internal rotation and international mobility opportunities
• Flexible and casual culture
• Employee events
• Amenities and games provided from Employees Centers
• 401k plan with company match
• Healthcare benefits
• HSA match
• Learning & Development platform (QCraft) with extensive courses, virtual labs, mentorship, leadership programs, professional tribes, and sponsored certifications
• Client Referral and Employee Referral Program bonuses
• Qudos platform for bonuses and spot awards
• Employee Perks for discounts on travel, electronics, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level