As a Senior Quality Engineer at Boston Dynamics, you will join our Operations team to ensure our customers receive robots that are made to the highest standards. Every day, you will work alongside our Supply Quality Engineers, Product Engineers and Operations team to ensure that our products meet or exceed quality expectations. You will be responsible for helping to determine the production standards for our products by establishing quality control systems and setting product requirement rules. We will also look for you to address any quality issues that may arise and properly route them at every and any stage during production. To be successful in this role, you must be inquisitive and thrive on solving problems, have excellent communication skills and be willing to take on an ever-changing list of tasks and responsibilities. 

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiringviral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.  

Day to day activities: 

• Address product quality during all stages of production including: incoming inspection, production, and final acceptance test stage, and take appropriate measures if and when issues arise 

• Collaborate with Product Engineers, Supplier Quality Engineers and the Operations Team to ensure that quality standards are met

• Implement methods to inspect, test and evaluate the reliability of manufacturing processes, products and production equipment

• Ensure processes implemented adhere to quality requirements

• Work alongside our Supply Quality Engineers when external corrective actions for quality need to be addressed

• Provide an effective interface with customers to ensure consistent quality service and ensure that product returns and non-conforming product are appropriately managed

• Identify, lead and report on improvement opportunities as determined through trends and data analysis

• Provide management of the MRB process to ensure effective root cause/corrective action and prompt and accurate disposition for out of spec material

• Lead the introduction of ECOs and other process changes on the manufacturing floor to ensure appropriate implementation and inventory disposition

• Provide internal process audits and help manage and improve our Quality Management System as needed

• Participate in cost reduction and yield improvement initiatives.

Desired skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience

• At  least 10 years of previous relative work experience in a manufacturing or supplier quality function in an ISO 9001 environment

• Experience manufacturing a wide range of components including precision machined parts, castings, injection molded plastic parts and PCBAs

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and convert them into the quality control plans

• Ability to understand and implement Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

• Experience understanding product issues and how to adequately get them resolved

• Excellent reporting, troubleshooting, and communication skills

• Experience with creating and approving change orders associated with product, procedures and BOMs.

• Experience with reliability methods.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.

Boston Dynamics will never ask you to divulge your personal financial or account information as part of its recruiting process.

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