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Supplier Quality Engineer, Sustaining

Skydio· Operations
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RemoteFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Supplier Quality Engineer role focused on strengthening Skydio’s supplier base to meet increasing production volume and quality needs, through supplier assessments, quality planning, audits, and continuous improvement across hardware development and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct supplier assessment and on-site audits to verify supplier quality systems and overall capabilities.
  • Participate in Hardware Product Development Process, partner with Manufacturing & Design Engineers to provide ideas and suggestions for manufacturing processes and quality plans to ensure suppliers have the capabilities in place for high-quality production at volume.
  • Conduct First Article Inspections and Surveillance Audits to ensure suppliers adhere to the company’s design engineering & quality requirements, as well as maintain a robust quality control and assurance program in place.
  • Drive quality planning during pre & post-production and 8D / SCAR activities with the supplier base to ensure suppliers’ outgoing quality is sufficient to minimize the need for incoming inspection at Skydio.
  • Maintain supplier scorecards to measure quality performance and drive continuous improvements with Skydio supplier base towards zero defects.

Qualifications

  • Self-starter with a desire to push Skydio products to the next level.
  • Interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to be a positive team member internally and externally.
  • Experience with bringing up and managing suppliers in the region and abroad.
  • Quality engineering experience in high-volume, high complexity consumer electronics or automotive products, or in-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes (including metal casting, sheet metal forming & stamping, injection molding, composites, coating technologies, displays, cameras, wiring harness), measurement and inspection practices, reliability, and statistical process control.
  • Familiarity with GD&T and ability to interpret complex drawings.
  • Experience with quality tools such as FMEA, PPAP and 8D, Root Cause Analysis (5-Why, fishbone), SPC; demonstrated measurable results.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
  • Willingness to travel to suppliers as required (30-40%).

Skills

Required:Supplier quality managementQuality tools

Benefits

  • Not specified in the job description.
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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