Digital Quality Engineer: Data-Driven Supplier Quality

Socket.dev; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors (GM) is seeking a Supplier Digital Quality Engineer to move supplier quality from launch readiness to ongoing, data-driven visibility and risk management across product development, launch, and production.

You will onboard digital quality data, connect engineering and quality records, and enable digital capture of measurements. You will establish approved supplier submission methods and ensure data completeness and traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 5+ years of quality engineering or supplier quality experience.
• Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, and 8D problem solving, root-cause analysis, and verification.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and traceability across quality documents.
• Ability to analyze trends and translate findings into supplier actions.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier onboarding and readiness for Supplier Digital Quality (SDQ) and Advanced Product Quality Planning.
• Connect and trace released part prints, PFMEAs, control plans, dimensional results, and digital measurements.
• Enable digital capture of KCDS measurements and establish GM supplier submission methods (APIs, Sterling Mailbox).
• Validate data completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and schema conformance; resolve data quality issues.
• Own supplier data pipelines from onboarding to production monitoring and sustainment.
• Support dashboards, analytics, and risk-based alarm management to distinguish data quality issues from true risk and drive containment and actions.
• Coordinate with suppliers, Supplier Quality Engineers, Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Plant teams across APQP/PPAP milestones.

Skills

Communication & collaboration

Analytical thinking

Project management

Data-driven thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/computer science/data analytics or related technical field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

APIs

SQL

SFTP/file-based exchanges

Job description

General Motors (GM) is seeking a Supplier Digital Quality Engineer to move supplier quality from launch readiness to ongoing, data-driven visibility and risk management across product development, launch, and production.

You will onboard digital quality data, connect engineering and quality records, and enable digital capture of measurements. You will establish approved supplier submission methods and ensure data completeness and traceability.