1X Technologies
Senior Manager Quality Engineering
$198K–$242K
San Carlos, CA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a Quality Engineering management role.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Materials, or a related engineering discipline.
About the job
Leads the Quality Engineering organization and builds scalable quality controls and systems for humanoid robot design, manufacturing, and production.
What you'll do
- Lead quality engineering across NPI, production, incoming inspection, MRB, and quality systems.
- Establish quality plans, PFMEA, control plans, inspection strategies, and acceptance criteria with engineering teams.
- Resolve quality issues through containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, and verification of durable fixes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in a Quality Engineering management role in complex hardware or similarly demanding manufacturing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Materials, or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience leading Quality Engineers through NPI and production ramp.
- Technical experience with manufacturing quality controls for complex electromechanical hardware, including inspection, metrology, and process validation.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling quality organizations through rapid production growth or high-rate NPI.
- Experience in robotics, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, or other vertically integrated electromechanical products.
Pay
$198,000 - $242,000 USD base salary; $198K – $242K USD base salary
Tools
PFMEA, control plans, inspection strategies, metrology, MRB, statistical quality methods, process capability, measurement system analysis
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative