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Salary: USD 198,000 - 242,000 / annual
1X is building general-purpose humanoid robots (NEO) designed to work safely alongside humans in any environment. The company is scaling from prototype to production, shipping real units, and solving robotics, AI, software, hardware, manufacturing, and operations simultaneously.
The Quality Engineering team enables 1X to scale complex humanoid robot hardware with speed, confidence, and manufacturing discipline. You will build and lead a high-performing Quality Engineering organization that establishes quality from product design through production.
Your charter includes:
- Building and leading the Quality Engineering organization (Quality Engineers and Quality Technician Supervisor)
- Owning quality planning, manufacturing controls, production quality, incoming inspection, MRB (Material Review Board), and quality system development
- Translating design intent into robust manufacturing and inspection controls
- Establishing quality planning for new products by converting design requirements into measurable manufacturing controls, inspection strategies, control plans, and acceptance criteria
- Leading PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and control plan development with Design and Manufacturing Engineering
- Driving timely resolution of significant production and incoming quality issues through containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, and verification
- Developing and improving practical Quality Management Systems and MRB processes
- Partnering across Design, Manufacturing, Software, Supply Chain, and Operations to improve quality across motors, batteries, electronics, structural assemblies, and critical robot systems
- Using inspection results, metrology, defect trends, and production feedback to prioritize systemic improvements and communicate quality performance to leadership
You will be a technical and hands-on quality engineering leader who can build an organization while remaining close to complex manufacturing and product quality problems. The role requires strong expertise in NPI quality planning, PFMEA, control plans, inspection strategies, and manufacturing process controls. You will lead structured problem-solving, containment, root cause analysis, and corrective action across cross-functional teams. You need a first-principles approach to building quality systems that are practical, scalable, and aligned with engineering and production needs, with strong operational judgment and ability to prioritize quality risks in a fast-moving production environment.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of experience in a Quality Engineering management role within complex hardware, electromechanical, automotive, aerospace, robotics, or similarly demanding manufacturing environment
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Materials, or related engineering discipline
- Demonstrated experience leading Quality Engineers and technical quality teams through new product introduction and production ramp
- Strong technical experience with manufacturing quality controls for complex electromechanical hardware, including inspection, metrology, and process validation
- Proven experience developing and implementing control plans, PFMEA, inspection strategies, and corrective action processes
- Deep experience with structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, and building practical quality systems
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with ability to work directly with engineering, supply chain, operations, and senior leadership
**Preferred Skills:**
- Experience scaling quality engineering organizations and systems through rapid production growth or high-rate NPI
- Experience in robotics, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, or other vertically integrated electromechanical products
- Experience developing or improving MRB, incoming inspection, metrology, and production quality operating systems
- Familiarity with statistical quality methods, process capability, measurement system analysis, and data-driven quality reporting
- Experience working across motors, batteries, electronics, structural assemblies, and other complex hardware systems
- Experience building quality systems from first principles in a startup or rapidly scaling manufacturing environment
