Quality Engineer 1
$39.47 - $69.08/hr+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units
Mid
Seattle, WA, USA
In Person
Manufacturing Quality & TestQuality Engineering
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About the job
Requirements
- At least 3 years of quality assurance engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems.
- Proficiency in CMM programming and operation.
- Experience with statistical analysis tools and methods, including capability analysis, Gage R&R, and SPC.
- Ability to create first article inspection reports.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve ISO 9001 quality management system certification.
- Develop and document quality procedures, work instructions, and inspection criteria.
- Conduct internal audits and support external certification audits.
- Drive corrective and preventive action processes.
- Ensure compliance with customer specifications and industry standards.
- Program and operate coordinate measuring machines and other metrology equipment.
- Set inspection criteria and sampling plans for incoming materials, in-process items, and final products.
- Perform first article inspections and generate detailed inspection reports.
- Conduct capability analysis (Cp, Cpk) to validate process performance.
- Execute Gage R&R studies to ensure measurement system accuracy and repeatability.
- Conduct supplier audits to assess quality systems and manufacturing capabilities.
- Own supplier quality performance and drive improvement initiatives.
- Review and approve supplier first article inspection reports.
- Manage supplier non-conformance issues and implement corrective actions.
- Qualify new suppliers and materials.
- Partner with manufacturing managers to resolve quality issues and implement process improvements.
- Work with production teams on root cause analysis and problem-solving.
- Support the Customer Success team with quality documentation and customer inquiries.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on design for manufacturability and quality requirements.
- Train production staff on quality standards, inspection techniques, and documentation.
- Lead Six Sigma projects to reduce defects and improve process capability.
- Analyze quality data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Implement statistical process control methods.
- Drive cost of quality reduction initiatives.
Desired Qualifications
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- At least 5 years of quality engineering experience in contract manufacturing or multi-process environments.
- Experience with multiple manufacturing processes, including CNC machining, welding, sheet metal, additive manufacturing, coating, and assembly.
- Supplier audit and supplier quality management experience.
- Proficiency with metrology equipment beyond CMM, such as optical comparators, surface roughness testers, and hardness testers.
- Familiarity with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and blueprint reading.
- Experience with quality management software and statistical analysis tools such as Minitab or JMP.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
About the company
Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
1994
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
- Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
- Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
What critics are saying
- AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
- Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
- Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.
What makes Amazon unique
- Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
- Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
- Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.
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- Flexible Work Hours
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