Senior Quality Engineer: NPD & APQP Leader

OpTalent | USA | Recruitment; Lake Forest (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

OpTalent seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to drive APQP and NPD from concept to production. You will identify product and manufacturing risks early, influence design decisions, and ensure readiness for scale.

Collaborating with Product, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, suppliers, and global teams, you’ll help connect product design, quality, manufacturability, validation, and launch readiness. Relocation is case-by-case.

Qualifications

• APQP-driven development experience
• Ability to assess design quality, reliability, and manufacturability
• Experience with DFMEA/PFMEA and related quality planning

Responsibilities

• Support new products from concept through production launch
• Apply APQP principles to plan and manage quality throughout NPD
• Evaluate product designs for quality, risk, reliability, and manufacturability
• Identify potential failure modes and drive risk reduction via DFMEA/PFMEA
• Apply RCA, SPC, Cpk, MSA, Control Plans, and DOE tools
• Provide technical feedback to Product and Design Engineering to prevent issues before production
• Support prototype builds, testing, validation, pilot production, and launch readiness
• Partner with Manufacturing and suppliers to address process, tooling, and production risks
• Support quality gates and ensure appropriate controls before production
• Manage multiple development projects, priorities, and timelines

Skills

APQP knowledge

Quality engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

DFMEA

PFMEA

RCA

SPC

DOE

MSA

Control Plans

Job description

OpTalent seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to drive APQP and NPD from concept to production. You will identify product and manufacturing risks early, influence design decisions, and ensure readiness for scale.

Collaborating with Product, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, suppliers, and global teams, you’ll help connect product design, quality, manufacturability, validation, and launch readiness. Relocation is case-by-case.