# Design Quality Engineer 2

Life. Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. Join our Quality team in Austin and help bring safe, reliable medical device innovations to life. As a Quality Engineer, you will be a key quality partner for new product development, working across functions to ensure products meet demanding quality, safety, performance and regulatory requirements. What will you be doing? Provide quality leadership for new product development project teams, serving as the Quality Engineering representative and partnering with cross functional teams. Generate, approve and manage design verification, design validation, sterilization validation, process validation, supplier qualification and test method activities. Develop protocols, capability studies and risk assessments to support product safety, reliability and overall risk management. Ensure compliance with applicable product standards and regulatory requirements, including cGMP, QSR, US FDA, ISO, IEC, UL, EN and EU MDR requirements. Support manufacturing operations with expertise in product requirements, inspection and test methods, root cause investigations and issue resolution. Partner wit

- **Id**: 4103614
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/smithnephew-design-quality-engineer-2-2>
- **Role**: MedTech
- **Role family**: MedTech
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T22:11:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:42:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3659
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Hybrid work, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Surgical Instruments & Devices, Orthopedic & Spine Implants

## Company

- **Id**: 1768800
- **Name**: Smith+Nephew
- **Domain**: smith-nephew.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/smith-nephew-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 90
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.678
- **Repost share**: 0.078
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **EU MDR** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no
- **Sterilization Validation** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:11:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 33 · green card filings: 11; Filings 12m: 33

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T05:03:02Z

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