Quality Engineering Senior

Job Description Agility's commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.

About the Role The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer drives supplier quality strategy for critical hardware and electromechanical supply chains. This role develops supplier quality metrics, qualification methods, audit processes, and development plans to build a reliable, scalable, and high-performing supplier base.

Audit strategic suppliers quality systems and manufacturing processes to ensure selection, qualification, and ongoing approval against internal quality requirements.

Review and provide feedback on supplier DFM, control plans, inspection plans, and test strategies for PCBA, electromechanical, and box-build assemblies.

Qualify and monitor suppliers producing PCBA, conformal-coated boards, cable assemblies, harnesses, connectors, sensors, motors, actuators, and integrated electromechanical subassemblies.

Evaluate compliance to relevant electronics and assembly standards, including IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC/WHMA-A-620, and any applicable customer requirements.

Assess supplier process capability for soldering, reflow, wave solder, cleaning, coating, crimping, connection, torqueing, test, and traceability controls.

Drive supplier root cause analysis, CAPA, and containment actions for electrical, mechanical, and mixed-technology failures.

Establish and maintain supplier quality requirements, including traceability, change control, inspection criteria, and nonconformance escalation.

Analyze supplier performance data to identify trends, prevent escapes, and improve delivery, yield, and field reliability.

Lead supplier audits and source inspections for incoming complex components and assemblies, including hidden-defect risks such as solder defects, intermittent connections, and harness termination failures.

Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, and engineering to remediate supplier issues and implement process improvements that support launch readiness and production stability.

Support implementation and continuous improvement of the QMS with emphasis on supplier quality for hardware, electronics, and electromechanical products.

Key qualities and skills

Strong understanding of electromechanical manufacturing processes, quality systems, and industrial engineering principles.

Deep knowledge of PCBA fabrication and assembly, electromechanical assembly processes, as SMT, wave solder, rework, cabling, and final test.

Expert at GD&T and able to interpret mechanical drawings, PCB assemblies, harness drawings, and interface specifications.

Familiarity with IPC standards, supplier process audits, and acceptance criteria for electronic assemblies.

Proficient in quality engineering tools and methodologies.

Knowledge of industry standards and regulatory requirements relevant to hardware and electronics manufacturing.

Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.

Ability and willingness to travel to U.Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering discipline plus 10+ years of relevant Supplier Quality Engineering experience, or equivalent education and experience.

Demonstrated technical expertise in quality engineering principles, tools, and methodologies for hardware, electronics, and electromechanical products.

Extensive experience assessing and qualifying suppliers, performing audits, source inspections, driving RCAs, and implementing CAPA.

Strong understanding of QMS development, including supplier-facing policies, SOPs, and control requirements.

Strong knowledge of NPI quality requirements at the supplier level within a hardware manufacturing company.

Extensive experience with quality tools such as FAI, PPAP, CAPA, 8D, FMEA, and risk-based supplier management.

Proficiency with analytical applications such as JMP, Minitab, Tableau, Power BI, and Excel.

Strong ability to generate and analyze supplier KPI data, present trends, and influence cross-functional decisions.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a customer-service culture.

Ability to work independently while driving projects and influencing suppliers.

Familiarity with Net-Inspect is a plus

In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:

• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
• Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.

On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.

A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.

Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.

Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.

Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered.