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Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Zoox· Supply Chain Quality and Reliability – Quality and Reliability
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Foster City, CA$190k - $228kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior role focused on ensuring world-class performance of Zoox seating and interior supply base, driving continuous improvement across supplier quality for prototype and production, with hands-on experience in seat systems and interior trim manufacturing.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Vehicle Interiors Engineering, Design, and Strategic Sourcing to select suppliers based on manufacturing capability, capacity, and quality maturity.
  • Collaborate with suppliers on design reviews to ensure seats and interior trim parts are manufacturable, and explore new production techniques and materials where needed.
  • Lead the supplier industrialization process from design through production ramp-up, including soft tooling to hard tooling transitions.
  • Support suppliers with tooling, foam molds, sew fixtures, gauges, and process qualifications; witness and approve tooling and process buy-offs on site.
  • Drive the APQP process and support PPAP through start of production, including dimensional, material, appearance, and performance validation.
  • Own craftsmanship and appearance quality for occupant-facing surfaces — grain, gloss, color and material matching, gap and flush, seam quality, stitch integrity, and trim fit — and establish master and boundary sample processes with suppliers.
  • Ensure supplier compliance with seating safety and interior material requirements, including occupant safety performance, flammability, and durability testing.
  • Assess supplier readiness for vehicle builds and help manage production risk ahead of each build phase.
  • Train suppliers on Zoox quality systems and review prototype and production part quality documentation.
  • Lead root cause and corrective action efforts (8D) for supplier quality issues, and support Manufacturing, Quality, and Vehicle Engineering with analysis and disposition of suspect supplier material.
  • Monitor and report supplier quality metrics to drive ongoing improvement across the seating and interiors supply base.
  • Use lean and quality tools to improve yield, first-time-through quality, and cycle time throughout the supply base.
  • Improve Zoox supplier quality processes such as supplier assessments, supplier management, part approval, and corrective actions.
  • Be ready for up to 40% domestic and international travel, sometimes on short notice.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
  • 8+ years of experience in quality, supplier quality, or manufacturing — ideally in automotive.
  • Direct experience with seating and/or interior trim commodities and their supply base.
  • Hands-on experience launching new products (NPI) and creating or improving quality systems.
  • Experience with manufacturing processes such as injection molding, foam-in-place and molded foam, cut-and-sew, lamination and wrapping, stamping and welding, and electromechanical assembly.
  • Skilled in structured problem-solving methods such as Six Sigma, 8D, Pareto analysis, DOE, fishbone, and Is/Is-Not.
  • Familiar with core quality tools: process flow diagrams, PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, and process capability studies.

Skills

Required:Supplier quality managementManufacturing process knowledgeProblem solving (Six Sigma, 8D, DOE)

Benefits

  • paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
  • unpaid time off
  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
  • Amazon RSUs
  • health insurance
  • long-term care insurance
  • long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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