VAST Data
Senior Quality & Manufacturing Lead
California · 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 improvement across suppliers, manufacturing, and field operations for enterprise hardware, including corrective actions, investigations, reporting, and lifecycle quality processes.
What you'll do
- Lead quality initiatives and corrective/preventive actions, analyzing trends and failure data to improve reliability.
- Coordinate supplier, manufacturing, and field quality activities, including audits, investigations, escalations, and issue closure.
- Develop 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 record of measurable quality improvements and experience developing quality metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with enterprise server, storage, SSD, or AI infrastructure platforms; manufacturing audits, supplier management, or process validation.
- Knowledge of CAPA, FMEA, SPC, 8D, or root cause analysis tools; experience with Jira, Tableau, Confluence, or quality management systems; ASQ CQE or equivalent certification.
Tools
Jira, Tableau, Confluence, CAPA, FMEA, SPC, 8D, RCCA/SCAR
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