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LeadFull-time
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a strategic Staff Quality Engineer to join our growing team at Nautilus. This role will provide strategic quality leadership during the transition of a complex instrument and consumable from late-stage prototype through design lock and into manufacturing scale.
Key Responsibilities
- →Define and own supplier and manufacturing quality strategy for critical components, subassemblies, and manufacturing phases
- →Anticipate systemic quality risks and develop proactive mitigation frameworks that influence design, sourcing, and operational decisions upstream
- →Identify patterns across suppliers, builds, and design iterations, surfacing root causes and enterprise-level implications to leadership
- →Establish scalable quality approaches that support transition from prototype to sustained production
- →Translate complex quality data, inspection findings, and risk assessments into clear narratives that guide leadership trade-off decisions
- →Influence upstream design and sourcing decisions to prevent downstream failure modes
- →Architect supplier quality planning and readiness models for critical suppliers and CMO onboarding
- →Define acceptance strategies, control frameworks, and oversight models that ensure long-term supplier capability
- →Lead qualification strategy for Contract Manufacturing Organizations
- →Act as quality program lead during pilot builds, production transfer, and early manufacturing scale
- →Ensure manufacturing documentation, control plans, and inspection systems support repeatable quality at scale
- →Establish success metrics and quality indicators that inform ongoing production health
- →Lead complex root cause investigations with a systems-level perspective
- →Mentor cross-functional partners and potentially junior quality engineers
- →Shape quality culture by modeling principled decision-making and balanced risk judgment
Requirements
- ✓10+ years of progressive experience in Quality Engineering, Supplier Quality, or Manufacturing Quality
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related field
- ✓Demonstrated experience defining quality strategy during design lock and manufacturing scale-up
- ✓Experience qualifying and overseeing Contract Manufacturing Organizations
- ✓Strong systems-level root cause, risk assessment, and cross-functional influence skills
- ✓Experience in regulated or highly controlled environments preferred
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