NPI Product Quality Sr Engineer

Overview

Location:

Markham, ON
Posted: 4/21/2026
Location Name: HSIO-Markham
Wage:
Depends on Experience

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. ACS designs and manufactures a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

NPI Product Quality Senior Engineer

Markham, ON

Amphenol Communications Solutions is a global organization with a strong presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. We operate with a decentralized culture where ideas are heard, initiative is encouraged, and teams are empowered to make decisions with clear accountability.

Amphenol is a leader in High Speed IO Connectors and Over Pass Solutions, serving servers, storage, networking equipment, and data center infrastructure. Our products enable reliable, low-loss data transmission for leading IT and Datacom platforms.

Role provides an opportunity to contribute within a collaborative, fast-moving team and to shape quality strategy for new product introductions and ongoing reliability at manufacturing sites.

The NPI Product Quality Senior Engineer is responsible for defining the NPI quality strategy, ensuring customer quality requirements, standards, and compliance for new product designs. This role also oversees ongoing reliability performance at manufacturing sites for current products, driving continuous improvement and applying lessons learned to future product development.

Customer-Centric – Builds and nurtures strong customer relationships by ensuring awareness of and compliance with product development requirements.

Adaptable – Navigates complexity and changing priorities with agility.

Collaborative – Aligns across engineering, operations, and support functions.

Strategic Thinker – Anticipates future customer requirements and aligns quality objectives, systems, and processes accordingly.

The NPI Product Quality Senior Engineer’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Quality Planning for New Products with Early-Stage Risk Identification
• Define NPI quality strategy, deliverables, and timelines aligned with program milestones.
• Develop product quality plans, including control plans, inspection standards, and validation requirements.
• Lead PFMEA and DFMEA reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Identify potential failure modes early and drive preventive actions prior to mass production.

• Customer & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Act as the quality interface between design engineering, manufacturing sites, and customer quality teams.
• Ensure customer-specific requirements are incorporated into NPI deliverables.

• Supplier & Component Readiness
• Collaborate with SQE teams to ensure critical components, new suppliers, and subassemblies are qualified and stable.
• Address risks related to new materials or design changes.

• Build Readiness & Line Preparation
• Oversee quality performance during EVT, DVT, and PVT builds.
• Ensure proper defect logging, categorization, containment, and resolution prior to mass production.

• Validation & Reliability Testing, Issue Resolution
• Plan, coordinate, and review product validation and reliability test results.
• Ensure issues identified during reliability testing and validation builds are resolved through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Coordinate 5 Why and 8D investigations for defects during NPI builds.
• Ensure closure of corrective and preventive actions prior to product launch.

• Ongoing Reliability Testing (ORT) & Continuous Improvement
• Ensure issues identified during reliability testing at manufacturing sites are resolved through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Drive closure of corrective and preventive actions, ensuring lessons learned are transferred and applied across sites and future product development.
• Ensure continuous improvement projects are implemented and completed on time to strengthen quality systems and prevent defects.

• Documentation…