Senior Quality Engineer

Company Overview


Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.

We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources - including solar, gas, and batteries - at a massive scale.

And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn't meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today's infrastructure equipment can't match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.

We've built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that's now ready for commercial deployment.

Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow's most demanding energy consumers.

Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.

Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.

With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.

Join us in building the power foundation of the future!

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to support solid state transformer production. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the Quality Management System to enable high quality products and commercialization. You will partner with design, supply chain and manufacturing to develop Amperesand's quality processes, you will lead regulatory and customer audits to qualify Amperesand as a preferred supplier.


This Senior Quality Engineer is a professional problem solver, that can make good use of quality techniques to solve quality challenges and develop reliable processes that prevent creation of defects. The Sr. Quality Engineer will work on high quality products that meet the high reliability standards in the electrical grid equipment business.


Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong cross functional relationships with internal teams and external partners through effective communication and collaboration
• Develop manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans to ensure products meet customer expectations
• Deploy and validate manufacturing requirements across subsystems, assemblies, and components to align design and production with customer needs
• Identify critical requirements and ensure suppliers and production teams maintain focus on key quality and performance needs
• Lead Design and Process FMEA development activities to identify and mitigate critical risks
• Support the development of manufacturing equipment, controls, and test plans based on FMEA findings and customer feedback
• Assist engineering teams with statistical analysis and other methodologies to evaluate the impact of part and process variability on system performance
• Conduct process capability analyses to assess supplier and production process performance against specifications and quality standards
• Design and execute experiments using DOE and other statistical methods to support issue investigation, characterization, and optimization efforts
• Manage and facilitate root cause and corrective action activities, including issue tracking, validation, brainstorming sessions, lean methodologies, hypothesis testing, and design of experiments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical, mechanical, materials, or industrial engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer or Six Sigma certification preferred
• 5+ years of quality engineering experience, preferably within electrical assemblies, grid equipment, energy storage, automotive, or power electronics industries
• Demonstrated experience applying design for quality and problem solving methodologies including FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DOE, and SPC
• Strong background in statistical analysis and data driven decision making
• Experience with Minitab, JMP, or similar statistical software preferred
• Experience with data mining and database tools such as MySQL
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options. Travel up to 15% of the time to suppliers and customers in the USA and overseas.


Reno Pay Range

$125,000-$140,000 USD

Pay Disclosure & Benefits

Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.


The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire

• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance

• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower

• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays

• Commuter Benefits

• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.


Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.