Supplier Quality Engineer

The role

The Supplier Quality Engineer will lead supplier qualification, audits, and performance management for manufactured components and data center building materials. This person will develop quality control standards and serve as the organizational subject matter expert.

What you will do

• Lead supplier qualification, audits, and ongoing performance management for manufactured components and data center building materials and systems.
• Develop and enforce quality control standards, inspection protocols, and acceptance criteria across the supplier base.
• Serve as the organizational SME on supplier quality.
• Own quality KPIs and metrics.
• Drive root-cause and corrective action on supplier quality issues through to closure.
• Represent the function in leadership reviews and executive escalations.
• Support customer executive business reviews.

Required qualifications

• Led supplier quality across manufacturing and large-scale infrastructure or construction.
• Owned quality end to end from supplier selection through delivery.
• Managed and grown a team of quality engineers.
• Run supplier qualification, audits, and corrective-action processes.
• Deep knowledge of quality systems and methods including inspection protocols, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
• Communicate credibly at the executive and founder level.

Nice to have

• Supplier quality across both hardware manufacturing and construction materials.
• Hyperscale or data center supply chains.
• Six Sigma or CQE.
• Building a supplier quality function from scratch.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them.