NPI Quality Engineer, HW

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Quality representative for assigned server and storage programs throughout product development, validation, launch, and sustaining support.

• Develop and maintain quality plans, program quality status, risk assessments, and readiness criteria for assigned platforms.

• Participate in NPI, ODT, engineering, product-readiness, and ship-support reviews, providing clear quality recommendations and escalation when required.

• Identify product, reliability, manufacturing, service, supplier, and customer-experience risks; establish priorities, align accountable owners, and track actions through verified closure.

• Provide quality leadership during critical product launches, defect escalations, and cross-functional issue-resolution activities.

• Analyze development, test, manufacturing, field, service, supplier, and reliability data to identify trends, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities.

• Monitor and communicate program status and risk summaries to technical teams and leadership.

• Lead or support root-cause analysis, failure analysis, corrective action, and preventive action using structured problem-solving methods.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to facilitate defect triage, technical reviews, decision making, and timely escalation of customer-impacting issues.

• Support Design for Excellence activities, including Design for Quality, Reliability, Manufacturability, and Serviceability reviews.

• Translate development, field, and service lessons into design recommendations, preventive controls, and future program requirements.

• Lead lessons-learned reviews and support standardization of quality processes, operating mechanisms, tools, and reporting.

• Apply analytics, automation, and AI-enabled methods, where appropriate, to improve quality insights, efficiency, and reporting accuracy.