Quality Engineer, Hardware

Drive Capital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Gecko Robotics is seeking a Quality Engineer to build, formalize, and support the quality systems that underpin our product development and robot operations. This hands-on role collaborates with engineering, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure inspections are implemented effectively and efficiently, addressing issues at root cause to prevent recurrence.

The position includes up to 25% travel to Gecko locations and field environments, with the requirement to qualify as a U.S.

Qualifications

• This role spans the full quality lifecycle — from establishing robust processes and inspection disciplines to driving supplier accountability, internal audit rigor, and systematic corrective action.
• You will work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure that our inspection services are implemented effectively and efficiently.
• This is a hands-on role suited for a quality professional who is comfortable in both the details of technical standards and the dynamics of cross-functional collaboration.
• You'll have direct visibility into how your work shapes product reliability, supplier performance, and operational efficiency.
• This role includes up to 25% travel to other Gecko Robotics locations (Houston, United Arab Emirates, etc), supplier sites, and field environments.
• Must be able to obtain a US Government security clearance.
• This role supports U.S. Navy manufacturing programs. Its essential functions require regular access to export-controlled technical data, U.S. Government information systems, and customer facilities subject to U.S.-person access requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build, formalize, and support the quality systems that underpin our product development and robot operations.
• Drive supplier accountability, internal audit rigor, and systematic corrective action.
• Ensure that our inspection services are implemented effectively and efficiently — and that problems are resolved at their root cause and don't recur.

Job description

What We Do

Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.

Role at a Glance

We are hiring a Quality Engineer to build, formalize, and support the quality systems that underpin our product development and robot operations. This role spans the full quality lifecycle — from establishing robust processes and inspection disciplines to driving supplier accountability, internal audit rigor, and systematic corrective action.

You will work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure that our inspection services are implemented effectively and efficiently — and that when problems arise, they are resolved at their root cause and don't recur.

This is a hands-on role suited for a quality professional who is comfortable in both the details of technical standards and the dynamics of cross-functional collaboration. You'll have direct visibility into how your work shapes product reliability, supplier performance, and operational efficiency.

This role includes up to 25% travel to other Gecko Robotics locations (Houston, United Arab Emirates, etc), supplier sites, and field environments.

Must be able to obtain a US Government security clearance.

This role supports U.S. Navy manufacturing programs. Its essential functions require regular access to export-controlled technical data, U.S. Government information systems, and customer facilities subject to U.S.-person access requirements. To satisfy the U.S. Government contractual and customer-access requirements applicable to this role, the selected candidate must qualify as a “U.S. person,