Sr. Engineering Program Director, Quality Strategy & Investigation Excellence

Location: Remote, United States; listed locations include Mounds View, Minnesota; North Haven, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Lafayette, Colorado.

Salary: USD 223,200–334,800 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies and medical devices, serving patients across more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Establish and lead a centralized Investigation Excellence Engineering capability.
• Develop strategies and governance for root cause analysis, advanced quality analytics, reliability engineering, and structured problem solving.
• Provide escalation support for critical investigations, major quality events, recalls, and CAPAs.
• Build technical communities, career pathways, training capabilities, and expertise for Quality Reliability Engineers and investigation specialists.
• Partner with Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Customer Experience, and Digital leaders to identify emerging signals and improve product performance.
• Direct design and development activities for medical device products or software systems, including feasibility studies, technical quality and reliability systems, documentation, suppliers, consultants, and personnel development.

Requirements

• Baccalaureate degree meeting the stated U.S. or equivalent international degree requirements and a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience with 10+ years of managerial experience; alternatively, an advanced degree with a minimum of 13 years of relevant experience and 10+ years of managerial experience.
• Advanced management and leadership knowledge for leading cross-department project teams and multiple functions.
• Mastery in a specific technical discipline or broad expertise across multiple related disciplines.
• Ability to lead multiple strategic programs, influence senior and executive leadership, and manage large matrixed teams and vendors without direct reporting responsibility.
• Roles below the Principal level require unrestricted U.S. work authorization at hire and throughout employment; sponsorship is limited to Principal-level roles and above.
• For bachelor's degrees earned outside the United States, the degree must satisfy the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A).

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Materials Science, or a related discipline.
• Experience in medical devices, aerospace, defense, semiconductor, automotive, energy, or another high-reliability industry.
• Expertise in Shainin Red X, Fault Tree Analysis, Apollo RCA, Event & Causal Factor Analysis, Physics of Failure, reliability-centered investigations, and Six Sigma.
• Experience leading Reliability Engineering, Failure Analysis, Investigation Excellence, or Quality Intelligence organizations.
• Expertise in Weibull analysis, reliability growth, accelerated life testing, reliability modeling, DOE, regression modeling, predictive analytics, Bayesian methods, and complex data interpretation.
• Experience deploying enterprise-wide technical training and certification programs and developing communities of practice or technical career frameworks.
• Formal certifications in Reliability Engineering, Six Sigma, Shainin Red X, Quality Engineering, Statistics, or related disciplines.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote workplace type within the United States.
• Regular employees may receive health, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition assistance, and employee stock purchase benefits, subject to eligibility.
• The position is eligible for the hirify.global Incentive Plan short-term incentive.
• Work is performed in a global, cross-functional, matrixed environment focused on patient outcomes, quality intelligence, and continuous improvement.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted through official hirify.global channels.
• The anticipated application window closes on 9 November 2026.