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You will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Customer Support to ensure alignment between product requirements, validation rigor, release readiness, and field performance.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep systems engineering knowledge with executive-level leadership capability, strong business acumen, and a demonstrated track record of building high-performing global organizations. This leader will champion a culture of quality ownership, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nDefine and lead the enterprise System Quality & Validation strategy aligned with business and product goals.\nEstablish quality governance, lifecycle gates, and release readiness standards.\nServe as the executive voice for product quality, reliability, and risk management.\nOwn end-to-end QA strategy across hardware disciplines and align with software QA.\nLead a global QA organization with standardized processes, tools, and best practices.\nOversee testing, automation frameworks, validation methods, and quality metrics.\nDrive defect management, root cause analysis, and continuous quality improvement across the lifecycle.\nPartner cross-functionally to ensure compliance, resolve field issues, optimize costs, and enhance product performance.\nQualification Requirements:\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline required; Master’s degree preferred.\n15+ years of experience in hardware quality assurance, system testing, or cross-disciplinary engineering quality roles.\n7+ years of experience in leadership roles.\nExperience in testing and quality management across multiple hardware engineering domains (Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, etc.).\nDemonstrated experience defining organizational strategy and leading transformation initiatives.\nProven success leading QA teams and managing quality operations across global sites.\nBackground in regulated environments or safety-critical product testing preferred.\nCertifications in quality engineering (ASQ CQE, Six Sigma Black Belt, etc.) preferred.\nFluent English is required.\nSalt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2767,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":7,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T22:11:27Z"}],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.173,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":162,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:31","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","ghost","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-director-systems-quality-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-director-systems-quality-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T02:40:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3616,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1384,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}