Senior Staff Product Quality Engineer

As a Senior Staff Product Quality Engineer at Boston Dynamics, you will join our Operations team to ensure our customers receive robots that are made to the highest standards. On a daily basis, you will work alongside our Supply Quality Engineers, Product/Design Engineers and Operations support team to ensure that our products meet or exceed quality expectations. You will be responsible for developing the production standards for our products by establishing quality control methods and systems and ensuring quality requirements are clear. We will also look for you to solve complex quality challenges, acting as a key technical resource for cross-functional teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. To be successful in this role, you must be inquisitive and thrive on solving problems, have excellent communication skills and be willing to take on an ever-changing list of tasks and responsibilities. 

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.  

Responsibilities: 

• Lead and execute the product quality function throughout the product development and new product introduction (NPI) process

• Lead resolution of product quality issues at all stages of the product lifecycle, from prototype to sustaining and across multiple disciplines  of the business (including design, supply chain, production and service)

• Lead root cause, corrective action and preventive action investigations cross functionally

• Collaborate with Design Engineers, Supplier Quality Engineers, Test Engineers and the Operations Team to ensure that quality standards are met

• Lead, measure and identify opportunities for improvement in first pass yield (FPY)  and other key performance indicators (KPIs)

• Plan and lead process qualifications generating clear and concise plans and reports as a result of new product releases and sustaining change.

• Ensure processes implemented adhere to quality requirements and risks are identified and communicated where nonconformances exist

• Provide support to the MRB process to ensure effective root cause/corrective action and prompt and accurate disposition for nonconforming material

• Implement methods to inspect and evaluate the reliability of manufacturing processes, products and production equipment. Continually improve these methods through data analysis and business needs. 

• Support and lead audits (internal, customer, third party) to help improve our Quality Management System, as necessary

• Participate in cost reduction and other efficiency improvement  initiatives

• Mentor junior engineers, inspectors and technicians on quality principles, statistical methods, and documentation best practices

• Champion continuous improvement and lead formal continuous improvement projects

Desired skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Industrial Engineering or other Engineering discipline

• 6+ years of progressively responsible experience in manufacturing, quality assurance or engineering, including project leadership in high-tech environments

• Experience in high-tech manufacturing environments where a wide range of components including PCBAs, electronics, precision machined parts, castings,injection molded plastic parts, optics, and actuators are assembled.

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and convert them into the quality control plans

• Ability to execute product and process qualifications

• Experience understanding product issues and how to adequately get them resolved

• Experience with creating and approving change orders associated with product, procedures and BOM

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical content to engineering, regulatory, and executive stakeholders

• Able to translate complex quality data into actionable insights that influence product and process decisions

Preferred skills:

• Deep experience with statistical quality tools (SPC, DOE, FMEA, MSA), regulatory standards (ISO 9001, ISO 13485, IPC), and quality risk management.

• Prior experience with PCBAs and system level products

• Prior experience developing processes and procedures

• Experience with reliability methods

• Experience in a manufacturing or quality function in an ISO 9001 environment

• Six Sigma Green Belt required; Black Belt, CQE, or equivalent certification strongly preferred