Quality Assurance Staff Engineer

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

The Quality Assurance Staff Engineer acts as anindependent quality partner for hardware development projects, ensuring products meet quality, safety, regulatory, and risk management requirements.
The role supportshearing aids, chargers, accessories, and other hardware products throughout the product lifecycle, from development through design transfer and maintenance.

What you will do

• Act as theQuality representative in hardware development projects and provide quality guidance throughout the product lifecycle.

• Ensure compliance withdesign controls, quality systems, risk management, and regulatory requirements.

• Review design deliverables, test records, design inputs/outputs, reviews, verification, validation, and design transfer documentation.

• Reviewverification and validation strategies, protocols, and reports and support resolution of findings.

• Participate indesign reviews, phase-gate assessments, and release readiness activities.

• Support regulatory compliance, technical documentation, andinternal/external audits and FDA inspections.

• Drive continuous improvement throughprocess improvements, lessons learned, and product/field feedback.

What you bring

Experience

• Bachelor's degree inengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Quality Management, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Product Development, Design Quality, or Regulatory Affairs.

• Experience supportinghardware development projects, preferably in a regulated environment.

• Knowledge ofdesign controls, risk management, quality systems, and product lifecycle management.

• Experience withsupplier qualification and manufacturing transfer activities.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Lead Auditor/Internal Auditor qualification is an advantage.

Personal competencies

• Analytical & problem-solving – able to identify quality issues and drive effective solutions.

• Quality-focused – meticulous with a strong eye for detail and compliance.

• Independent & systematic – able to work autonomously within structured processes.

• Collaborative – builds effective partnerships with R&D and cross-functional teams.

• Influential – able to provide objective quality guidance and challenge when required.

• Clear communicator – communicates quality risks and requirements effectively.

• Continuous improvement mindset – identifies opportunities to strengthen processes and product quality.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.