VAST Data
Senior Quality & Manufacturing Lead
Arizona · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field.
About the job
Leads quality initiatives across supplier, manufacturing, and field operations for enterprise hardware, driving reliability improvements and corrective actions throughout the product lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Lead quality improvement and corrective/preventive action efforts; analyze failure trends and operational metrics.
- Partner with suppliers, manufacturing, engineering, and field teams on audits, investigations, issue resolution, and corrective action closure.
- Maintain quality dashboards and reporting, and support NPI and sustaining programs with quality planning and readiness reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of quality engineering experience in enterprise hardware, manufacturing, storage, or data center technologies.
- Experience across supplier, manufacturing, and field quality operations, including failure analysis and RCCA/SCAR processes.
- Proven quality improvements and experience developing metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with enterprise server, storage, SSD, or AI infrastructure platforms; manufacturing audits, supplier management, or production process validation.
- Knowledge of CAPA, FMEA, SPC, 8D, Jira, Tableau, Confluence, or quality management systems; ASQ CQE or equivalent quality certification.
Tools
Jira, Tableau, Confluence, CAPA, FMEA, SPC, 8D, RCCA/SCAR
AI focus
The role supports quality operations for enterprise hardware; the posting mentions AI infrastructure platforms as preferred familiarity, but does not specify AI work duties.
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