Senior Hardware Quality Engineer

Position Summary
The Senior Hardware Quality Engineer provides quality leadership for connected hardware products such as communication badges, wall mount cameras, video streaming devices, gateways, and IoT platforms. The role ensures products are designed, tested, manufactured, and released with a focus on reliability, safety, compliance, and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead quality activities for new product development and sustaining engineering projects.
• Drive Design for Quality (DfQ), risk management, and reliability engineering activities.
• Facilitate DFMEA, PFMEA, hazard analyses, and design reviews.
• Review and approve verification, validation, and reliability test plans.
• Support manufacturing transfer, supplier qualification, and process validation.
• Investigate field failures, customer complaints, and non-conformances; lead CAPA activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality, safety, and regulatory standards.
• Analyze quality metrics and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Hardware, Firmware, Software, Operations, and Supplier Quality teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or related Engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in hardware quality, reliability, or product quality engineering.
• Experience with electronic devices, embedded systems, cameras, wearables, wireless, or IoT products.

Technical Skills

• DFMEA, PFMEA, CAPA, 8D, Root Cause Analysis
• Reliability testing, Environmental & EMC testing
• Electronics, PCBAs, batteries, sensors, cameras, wireless technologies
• Manufacturing quality, supplier quality, and process validation

Success Measures

• Product launch quality
• Field reliability performance
• Reduction in customer-reported issues
• Supplier quality metrics
• Compliance and audit readiness
• Successful NPD milestone execution