Senior Design Quality Engineer, Materials & Risk

Dexcom; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 129,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexcom is seeking a senior Design Quality Engineer specializing in material characterization and risk management to support CGM device programs. You will lead reliability and safety-focused activities across materials, formulations, and finished devices.

You will collaborate with R&D, Materials Science, and Regulatory teams to ensure evidence-driven decisions, maintain traceability, and drive quality through the product lifecycle. This role offers remote work with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in material characterization, analytical chemistry, formulation development or material science.
• Experience characterizing and qualifying complex material systems used in regulated products.
• Strong understanding of how material attributes affect safety, performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Design Quality Engineering SME for material characterization, formulation science, and risk management across programs.
• Lead quality oversight of characterization and qualification strategies for materials, intermediates, formulations, and finished materials.
• Establish traceability between material attributes, formulation characteristics, processes, and finished device safety and performance.
• Collaborate with R&D, Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry, Process Development, Manufacturing, and Regulatory Affairs to support decisions with evidence.
• Drive ISO 14971-based risk management to identify and control material-related hazards and variability.
• Provide Design Quality leadership for characterization studies, analytical method assessments, stability programs, and validation activities.
• Represent Design Quality during design reviews, audits, inspections, and regulatory submissions, linking material characterization to device performance.

Skills

Material characterization

Analytical chemistry

Formulation development

Material science

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or related technical discipline

Job description

Dexcom is seeking a senior Design Quality Engineer specializing in material characterization and risk management to support CGM device programs. You will lead reliability and safety-focused activities across materials, formulations, and finished devices.

You will collaborate with R&D, Materials Science, and Regulatory teams to ensure evidence-driven decisions, maintain traceability, and drive quality through the product lifecycle. This role offers remote work with occasional travel.