Product Quality Engineer

The role

You will own final assembly and test quality at the contract manufacturer from trial production through mass production. You will drive process yield, define inspection criteria, and manage quality at the EMS partner.

What you will do

• Own final assembly and test quality at the CM from trial production through mass production
• Drive process yield by monitoring first-pass yield and defect rates
• Define, document, and maintain final inspection criteria
• Own the customer inspection and acceptance process
• Represent Menlo through NPI phase gates
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action on line failures and test escapes
• Set up and audit the CM's process controls
• Manage non-conformance at the CM
• Track and report quality metrics and drive continuous improvement reviews
• Partner with engineering teams to feed failures back into design and process

Required qualifications

• 3 or more years in a product, supplier, or manufacturing quality role owning final assembly and test at a contract manufacturer or EMS partner
• Direct experience taking a product through NPI phase gates (EVT / DVT / PVT) and into mass production
• Strong command of yield analysis and defect reduction
• Hands-on ownership of final inspection and outgoing quality
• Fluency in core quality tools and methods: 8D, FMEA, SPC, control plans, FAI, and MRB / non-conformance handling
• Comfort reading mechanical drawings and GD&T, electrical schematics, and test specs
• Strong communication and influence skills
• Willingness to travel to and work on-site at manufacturing partners

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, or other high-reliability electromechanical products
• Experience managing quality at CMs in the region (for example Vietnam, China, or elsewhere in Asia)
• Familiarity with quality systems and standards such as ISO 9001, APQP, PPAP, and IPC-A-610
• Motor, actuator, or drivetrain assembly and test quality experience
• Experience defining final assembly and test (FATP) test coverage and station-level test strategy
• Scripting for quality data analysis and automation, for example Python or SQL
• Experience standing up CM quality processes from near-zero at an early-stage hardware company

About the company

Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it.