Launch-Ready Quality Engineer (Pre-Production)

Rivian; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Equity awards

Job summary

Rivian is seeking a Pre-production Quality Engineer in California to bridge Product Development, Engineering and Operations as you bring new vehicles to life. You will partner with Design, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Production Control, and Manufacturing and Process Engineering to ensure quality during prototype builds and establish quality standards and testing systems across vehicle platforms.

You will drive optimization, document issues, and report readiness while helping to create

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 2+ years of quality experience in manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Understanding of launch processes from prototype through series production.
• Production Operations knowledge across production control, material handling, supply chain, quality, and production teams.
• Knowledge of manufacturing validation processes for complex new products across engineering teams and facilities.
• Understanding of technical documentation and data management & transformation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (8D or similar).
• Willingness to travel at least 40% of the time; travel may vary weekly.

Responsibilities

• Understand activities to support readiness for new model development builds and launches across vehicle platforms.
• Provide activity status, summary, and issue resolution tracking reports.
• Plan, organize, and execute pre-launch build activities.
• Interact and support results across design, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, quality, and production.
• Facilitate ramp management with operations teams and risk mitigation per New Model Operational Plans.
• Support operations readiness workstream and escalation/recovery planning.
• Maintain shop floor 5S standards for the Quality team during prototype builds.
• Identify root causes of issues and propose fixes prior to Design Handover.
• Monitor and manage systematic problems via Rivian Concern System.

Skills

Analytical reasoning

Willingness to travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

8D problem solving

Job description

Rivian is seeking a Pre-production Quality Engineer in California to bridge Product Development, Engineering and Operations as you bring new vehicles to life. You will partner with Design, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Production Control, and Manufacturing and Process Engineering to ensure quality during prototype builds and establish quality standards and testing systems across vehicle platforms.

You will drive optimization, document issues, and report readiness while helping to create