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Anthropic is building data center capacity at scale and needs a Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer to own quality at the source—inside OEM and integrator factories. You will qualify suppliers, define acceptance criteria, witness factory acceptance tests (FATs), drive corrective actions to closure, and ensure equipment leaves factories complete, conforming, documented, and installation-ready.
This is a hands-on individual-contributor role on the Compute DC Infrastructure team, partnering daily with Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Construction, and Commissioning. The focus is technical quality engineering at manufacturing facilities, not supplier relationship management or people management.
Key responsibilities include:
**Supplier Qualification & Readiness:** Lead quality qualification of new and existing suppliers of power and cooling equipment through on-site process audits, capability assessments, and manufacturing readiness reviews (MRRs). Translate Anthropic engineering specifications into supplier-facing quality requirements: inspection and test plans (ITPs), acceptance criteria, witness/hold points, and documentation deliverables. Partner with Strategic Sourcing to embed quality requirements, Supplier Quality Agreements, and FAT/documentation expectations into RFPs and contracts.
**Factory Acceptance & In-Process Quality:** Plan, witness, and sign off FATs for electrical gear (switchgear, UPS, transformers, gensets, busway, PDUs) and mechanical systems (chillers, CDUs, CRAH/fan walls, dry coolers, pumps, piping skids). Conduct in-process and pre-shipment inspections at supplier facilities; verify build-to-print conformance, workmanship, labeling, and traceability. Review and approve supplier test reports, quality data packages, and turnover documentation.
**Nonconformance & Corrective Action:** Own the nonconformance (NCR) and deviation process for factory-found issues; lead containment, disposition, and root-cause analysis using 8D, 5-Why, FMEA, and fault-tree methods. Drive supplier corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to verified closure. Investigate field-reported defects and feed lessons learned into future requirements.
**Metrics & Continuous Improvement:** Define and track supplier quality KPIs—first-pass FAT yield, defect rate, NCR aging, on-time documentation, supplier scorecards. Apply SPC and statistical analysis to supplier process data. Help build the quality framework for a rapidly scaling, multi-supplier, multi-region equipment pipeline.
You bring 6–10+ years of quality engineering, manufacturing quality, or supplier quality experience in electrical or mechanical equipment manufacturing, mission-critical infrastructure, or comparable regulated/high-consequence industries. You have hands-on experience with at least one side of the data center equipment stack (switchgear, UPS, generators, transformers, busway, chillers, CDUs, air handlers, pumps) and the curiosity to come up to speed fast on the other. You have a proven record planning and witnessing FATs and conducting supplier audits, with the judgment to know when to hold a shipment and when to accept with deviation. You are fluent in structured problem-solving and quality tools: 8D, RCA, FMEA, SPC, control plans, PPAP or equivalent. You can read electrical one-lines, P&IDs, and mechanical drawings.
