Head of Quality Systems — Autonomous Vehicle Platform

Maymobility; United States; On-site; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare package

Retirement benefits with employer 401k

Parental leave and flexible vacation

Phased return to work and wellness

Job summary

May Mobility is seeking a Quality Systems Lead for Vehicle Platform Engineering to design, automate, and scale the Quality Management System across the vehicle platform lifecycle. You will lead a small team, drive continuous improvement, and integrate QA with safety-critical programs to sustain high reliability.

The role emphasizes building automated, scalable processes, leveraging AI tools, and partnering with autonomy, engineering, and field teams to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building or leading quality systems in a hardware/software engineering environment — automotive, robotics, aerospace, or another safety-critical field.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience with design controls, verification & validation, change management, and root cause/CAPA processes.
• A demonstrated builder's mindset — built or substantially rebuilt or improved a quality system or process.
• Comfort leading improvements to take manual work out of quality processes.
• Experience with issue-tracking and workflow tools (e.g., Jira) for traceability across a product lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to and influencing stakeholders at every level.

Responsibilities

• Re-architect and continuously evolve a flexible Quality Management System that syncs with the Safety Management System for Autonomy.
• Build iterative closed-loop continuous improvement processes — root cause analysis, CAPA-style workflows, trend and risk analysis — that connect field issues and fleet data back into design decisions.
• Stand up design-control practices (design inputs/outputs, verification & validation, design reviews, traceability) sized to manage safety-critical risk.
• Find the manual, paper-heavy corners of the quality process and automate them with emerging tools — AI/ML, LLM-based tooling, workflow automation.
• Partner with autonomy, engineering, fleet operations, and technical support to keep the QMS grounded in field issues and drive fixes.
• Define and evolve the quality KPIs/OKRs that measure platform health and the QMS's effectiveness.
• Engage suppliers and partners on quality issues and corrective actions when they touch the vehicle platform.
• Build and grow a small, high-leverage quality systems function as the need scales.

Skills

Quality leadership

Design controls

CAPA processes

Root cause analysis

Change management

Jira

Technical communication

Risk analysis

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/CS

Master's degree (Desirable)

Tools

Jira

Job description

May Mobility is seeking a Quality Systems Lead for Vehicle Platform Engineering to design, automate, and scale the Quality Management System across the vehicle platform lifecycle. You will lead a small team, drive continuous improvement, and integrate QA with safety-critical programs to sustain high reliability.

The role emphasizes building automated, scalable processes, leveraging AI tools, and partnering with autonomy, engineering, and field teams to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.