Quality Assurance Engineer (Design Quality)

Location: Fairport, New York, United States

Salary: $83,400–$155,000 per year

Company

hirify.globalt develops precision technology, instruments, sensors, and subsystems; Qualitrol manufactures monitoring and protection devices for high-value electrical assets and OEM customers.

What you will do

• Partner with R&D, manufacturing engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and other teams from concept through production.
• Translate customer and product requirements into Critical-to-Quality requirements and apply DFM/DFA principles.
• Review mechanical components, assemblies, enclosures, drawings, materials, tolerances, and manufacturing requirements.
• Lead DFMEA and PFMEA activities and convert identified risks into design controls, process controls, verification activities, and corrective actions.
• Define inspection methods, production tests, acceptance criteria, validation approaches, test fixtures, gauges, and reliability testing.
• Support prototypes, design verification, pilot production, qualification, new product introduction, and transition to full-scale manufacturing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, electrical, quality engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in design quality, quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, product development, or a related engineering role.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical design and manufacturing, engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerances, materials, assembly methods, dimensional inspection, and manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of CTQs, DFMEA/PFMEA, root-cause analysis, verification and validation, reliability testing, and process controls.
• Practical knowledge of Six Sigma methods, process capability, control charts, measurement system analysis, hypothesis testing, regression, and DOE.
• Working knowledge of electronic products and PCB/PCBA manufacturing, plus exposure to software or firmware development and testing.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-enabled tools, automation, data analytics, and digital engineering workflows.
• Experience with machining, sheet metal fabrication, molding, casting, fastening, sealing, bonding, and mechanical assembly.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy, broad responsibility, and creative problem-solving within a medium-sized operating environment.
• Access to the resources, standard methodologies, and career opportunities of a Fortune 500 organization.
• Work culture emphasizing authenticity, clarity, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.