Motive - Design Quality Manager
Requirements
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability Engineering, or a related field. • Experience in hardware reliability, product quality, validation, or systems engineering. • Experience hiring, developing, and managing engineering reliability teams. • Lead cross-functional reliability and quality initiatives across engineering, operations, manufacturing, and suppliers. • Define multi-quarter reliability strategies, team goals, metrics, and operating cadences. • Develop test plans and reliability requirements for NPI/ORT based on field conditions and use cases. • Lead DFMEA reviews, reduce design risks, drive improvements, and collaborate with global teams and Taiwan-based suppliers. • Manage lab equipment calibration and resolve audit findings, nonconformances, and corrective actions. • Open to take business travel 20% of the year to our manufacturing sites and labs • Experience with connected devices, automotive electronics, telematics, cameras, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, or other products deployed in harsh environments. • Experience taking products from concept through design verification, NPI, production ramp, and sustaining engineering. • Familiarity with NUDD, FRACAS, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, reliability prediction, Weibull analysis, DOE, tolerance analysis, and reliability growth planning. • Experience working with contract manufacturers and component suppliers on qualification, process capability, and corrective actions. • Familiarity with applicable industry and environmental standards such as IEC 60068, MIL-STD-810, ISO16750 or automotive/customer-specific requirements.
Responsibilities
• Set reliability strategy and direction by defining the multi-quarter hardware reliability strategy, team goals, success metrics, and ownership model, translating ambiguous risks into actionable plans, and representing Hardware Reliability in design, launch, and leadership forums. • Drive reliability across the product lifecycle by partnering across Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Systems, Product, and TPM to define requirements, test plans, qualification coverage, and exit criteria, and leading failure-mode analysis, design-for-reliability reviews, reliability growth, and risk-based decisions from concept through sustaining. • Improve field and production quality by connecting design validation, manufacturing data, returns, support signals, and field failures to drive root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and data-informed improvements to process capability, supplier quality, test coverage, and product robustness. • Build and develop the team by hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing a high-performing Taipei-based reliability engineering team while establishing scalable standards, documentation, and review mechanisms, planning resources, and removing execution bottlenecks. • Influence globally by building trusted partnerships across Taipei, San Francisco, India, and other global teams, communicating technical trade-offs clearly, aligning stakeholders across cost, schedule, quality, and reliability, and championing customer-back strategies.
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