Quality Engineer

ZT Systems; Georgetown (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ZT Systems is seeking a Sr. Staff - Principal Customer Product Quality Engineer to lead customer and product quality initiatives for NPI through mass production. You will collaborate with customers and internal teams to resolve issues, drive CAPAs, and ensure reliability across hyperscale AI server systems.

The role emphasizes escalation management, data-driven decision making, and strong leadership to meet quality objectives across a global organization.

Qualifications

• Requires BS in Engineering (Electrical/Mechanical/Industrial) with extensive CQE experience.
• Lean/Six Sigma certification strongly desired.
• Proven track record driving complex quality issues to closure across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Interface with key customers and suppliers to meet satisfaction and scorecard expectations.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and escalation for CQE/PQE teams.
• Drive timely resolution of customer issues within SLAs.
• Mitigate quality issues impacting customers and internal operations.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions across cross-functional teams.
• Foster a data-driven quality culture and continuous improvement mindset.
• Define factory build report expectations and data requirements with customers.
• Host quality audits and customer visits; advocate for the customer.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Data-driven decision making

Customer-facing

Communication

Problem solving

Excel

Root cause analysis

Process improvement

Quality metrics

Project planning

Strong analytical skills

Education

Engineering BS

MS degree (preferred)

Tools

Database/reporting systems

Job description

Title: Sr. Staff - Principal Customer Product Quality Engineer

Level: 4-6

Onsite: Yes

Location(s): Secaucus NJ preferred. Georgetown, TX secondary.

About the Role

The Sr. Staff Customer and Product Quality Engineering works with both our customers and internal teams seamlessly from NPI (New Product Introduction) to high-volume mass production hyperscale / AI Server Systems for global marquee customers. Reporting to Sr. Manager of Product and Customer Quality, the Sr Staff CQE/PQE will act as an escalation point for our customer and lead our customer quality and product quality engineers who serve as the customer’s advocate in driving resolution of issues and continuous improvement. The team is responsible for resolving customer quality issues and ensuring our customer is delighted, while root causing the problem and corrective action to its source including design, process, materials/suppliers, and/or test.

What You’ll Do

• Interface with key customers and suppliers to ensure customer satisfaction and customer scorecard expectations are met
• Provide day-to-day guidance and escalation points to customer and product quality engineers
• Successfully drive resolution of customer issues within agreed-upon service level agreement
• Mitigation of quality issues that impact the customer and internal operations
• Identify systematic/process improvements involving customer quality excursions by working with multiple cross-functional teams including manufacturing, supplier, and design/sustaining engineering
• Strive to build a continuous improvement mentality to develop and ensure a data-driven proactive quality culture
• Work with customers to clearly define factory build report expectations including frequency of reports, expected data, and response to excursions
• Host quality-related customer visits and audits Be an advocate for the customer through excellent knowledge of ZT manufacturing process, timely follow through, and customer focus

What You’ll Bring

• An Engineering BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or similar field and 8+ years of experience, preferably in the Computer or Electronic Manufacturing industries (alternatively an MS and 6 + years experience) for Sr. Staff and 10+ for Principal.
• Experience /certification in Lean / Six Sigma is strongly desired
• Track both internal and external customer quality issues across multi-functional teams including Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Suppliers to timely and meaningful resolutions.
• Must be capable of effectively interfacing at all levels of the organization including the executive level both internally and with the customer
• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to drive complex issues to closure in a timely manner and clearly communicate status updates and the results
• Manage quality issue diagnosis, root-cause determination, and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions with the appropriate team(s)
• Review failure analysis and corrective action reports through well-managed customer-facing communications
• Communicate customer feedback regarding quality and reliability performance against customer requirements and help the company incorporate into our strategic goals
• Project planning and leadership experience
• Possess relationship management abilities; strong customer-facing skills
• Experience in working within a global organization is a plus
• Demonstrated success working in dynamic organization while leading a team through objectives with multiple priority levels
• Experience in leading and mentoring less-experienced team members
• Experience creating win-win scenarios with multiple stakeholders/interests to gain buy-in to meet quality objectives
• Excellent data diagnostic & analytical skills
• Knowledge of database/reporting systems, strong Excel skills