Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.</p></div><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About the Role</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer drives supplier quality strategy for critical hardware and electromechanical supply chains. This role develops supplier quality metrics, qualification methods, audit processes, and development plans to build a reliable, scalable, and high-performing supplier base.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the work</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Audit strategic suppliers quality systems and manufacturing processes to ensure selection, qualification, and ongoing approval against internal quality requirements.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead part-by-part qualification, PPAP, and FAI through product development, new part introduction, and supplier onboarding.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Review and provide feedback on supplier DFM, control plans, inspection plans, and test strategies for PCBA, electromechanical, and box-build assemblies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Qualify and monitor suppliers producing PCBA, conformal-coated boards, cable assemblies, harnesses, connectors, sensors, motors, actuators, and integrated electromechanical subassemblies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Evaluate compliance to relevant electronics and assembly standards, including IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC/WHMA-A-620, and any applicable customer requirements.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Assess supplier process capability for soldering, reflow, wave solder, cleaning, coating, crimping, connection, torqueing, test, and traceability controls.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive supplier root cause analysis, CAPA, and containment actions for electrical, mechanical, and mixed-technology failures.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Establish and maintain supplier quality requirements, including traceability, change control, inspection criteria, and nonconformance escalation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Analyze supplier performance data to identify trends, prevent escapes, and improve delivery, yield, and field reliability.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead supplier audits and source inspections for incoming complex components and assemblies, including hidden-defect risks such as solder defects, intermittent connections, and harness termination failures.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, and engineering to remediate supplier issues and implement process improvements that support launch readiness and production stability.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Support implementation and continuous improvement of the QMS with emphasis on supplier quality for hardware, electronics