Principal Hardware Quality Engineer

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Department Overview

Job Description

Avigilon Alta quality assurance group is looking for a Principal Hardware Quality Engineer to help facility and drive our product quality through design development and deployment. The individual will drive quality assurance activities including but not limited to: system level test planning and execution design and development quality metrics. This position requires constant cross team communication and heavy cooperation with customer support software and hardware development groups.

Responsibilities:

• Help establish and maintain the companys hardware quality metrics standards and specifications for IoT and video products. This includes defining acceptable failure rates cosmetic standards and performance benchmarks.

• Help create a long-term plan for quality improvements including the adoption of new testing technologies process enhancements and quality systems.

• Proactively identifying potential quality risks in new product designs components and manufacturing processes and developing mitigation plans.

• Implementing managing and continuously improving the QMS (e.g. ISO 9001). This includes documenting all quality-related procedures from component inspection to final product testing.

• Collecting analyzing and reporting on quality data from various sources (factory yields field returns customer feedback). They use statistical process control (SPC) and other data analysis techniques to drive decisions and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to leadership.

• Managing quality for products in the field including leading failure analysis (FA) on customer returns (RMAs) and managing any component changes or obsolescence issues.

• Overseeing the development and execution of test plans to validate product performance and reliability. This includes environmental testing (temperature humidity) mechanical stress testing (drop vibration) and characterization of critical components like camera sensors and wireless modules.

• Acting as the primary quality interface with contract manufacturers. This involves regular factory audits performance reviews and collaboration on process control and yield improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree preferably in an Engineering discipline

• 10 year background in hardware quality assurance testing in both white and black box hardware testing both NPI and sustaining hardware changes.

• Experience working on quality control processes for overseas manufacturing and domestic RMAs creating structure and change management for continuous improvement

• 7 year background in IoT and/or video based hardware testing practices

• Strong ability to debug root cause failures and turn into actionable solutions

• Familiarity with JIRA and TestRail

• Experience creating processes and developing feedback to improve product quality

• Nice to have experience in defect tracking and FMEA

• Can operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

• Highly organized can juggle multiple competing priorities and tasks

• A strong communicator (verbal written and interpersonal)

• Advance working knowledge of Google Spreadsheets Excel or Tableau

Target Base Salary Range: $140000 - $180000

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree

• 7 years of experience in quality assurance and testing

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Our :

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical Dental Visionbenefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• GenerousPaidTime Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• PaidParental & Family Leave

• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.

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