Quality Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Quality Engineer for a direct hire opportunity in Fremont, CA, supporting advanced PCBA manufacturing and conformal coating processes. This role is ideal for a quality or process engineering professional with hands‑on experience in PCBA assemblies, design for conformal coating, new product introduction, and customer technical documentation reviews. The Quality Engineer will serve as a key technical interface between customers, sales, engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams to ensure PCB assemblies are designed, documented, and released for successful production.

This position offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative manufacturing environment with supportive leadership, strong cross‑functional teamwork, and a focus on continuous improvement, process standardization, and product reliability. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving technical manufacturing challenges, improving quality outcomes, reducing nonconformances, and helping customers move from design concept through production readiness with confidence.

• Support design for conformal coating reviews, manufacturability assessments, technical risk analysis, and NPI activities for PCB assemblies requiring conformal coating, staking, potting, encapsulation, bonding, masking, stripping, or related polymeric processes.
• Review customer RFQs, drawings, specifications, technical data packages, workmanship requirements, and documentation to ensure requirements are complete, compliant, and feasible for manufacturing.
• Evaluate customer design requirements against applicable IPC, MIL, NASA, and other industry standards, including IPC-A-600, IPC-A-610, IPC J-STD-001, and IPC-CC‑830.
• Provide manufacturability feedback, process compatibility analysis, risk mitigation recommendations, and JIRA DFC review documentation.
• Support NPI builds, first article readiness, masking methods, coating application strategies, and translation of customer requirements into manufacturing and inspection criteria.
• Participate in customer technical reviews, quality discussions, RCCA investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce customer escapes and coating‑related nonconformances.

• Direct hire opportunity.
• Pay range: $50.00 to $65.00 per hour.
• Location:
  
  Fremont, CA.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) and statutory sick pay for temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer.

Apple One participates in the E‑Verify program in certain locations as required by law. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.