Quality Manager

xLight is building the world's most powerful laser to revolutionize semiconductor lithography, metrology, and for other critical applications. Our approach harnesses the power of free-electron lasers, building on accelerator technology in use globally at scientific user facilities. Extending this technology, we are developing industrial-grade light sources, engineered for continuous operation, to meet the sophisticated demands of next-generation patterning, metrology, and inspection applications.

Join us in this new revolution.

At xLight, we hire exceptional talent — and exceptional means more than a strong résumé. How we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves, which is why attitude and character matter as much as technical skill. We believe great talent is widely distributed, not confined to a particular school or background. We seek individuals who demonstrate ownership, a spirit of collaboration, technical curiosity, and a genuine willingness to learn and grow — guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity, Creativity, and Engineering Excellence.

We don't just hire for what someone can do today. We hire for who they are and who they are becoming.

As we scale from early development into manufacturing, integration, and deployment with a customer focus, we are seeking a Quality Manager to establish and drive our company-wide quality strategy.

This role will be responsible for developing and maintaining xLight's Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring product and process quality across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, installation, and commissioning activities, and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate combines hands‑on quality expertise with the ability to build scalable systems and processes in a fast‑paced, multidisciplinary environment.

You’ll work for the Head of Product Delivery and integrate into the teams that are designing, procuring, assembling and testing complex systems to ensure both verification and validation activities are conducted.

• Develop and continuously improve xLight's QMS, including the selection and implementation of software systems that cover
• Advise senior leaders on QMS for best practices, including any appropriate consensus standards that may be.
• Define and track quality metrics and KPIs and manage reporting.

• Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing to embed quality throughout the product lifecycle.
• Establish inspection, validation, and acceptance criteria for products and assemblies.
• Develop processes and lead root cause analysis, nonconformance management, and corrective action activities.
• Support design reviews and promote quality best practices across the organization.

• Oversee incoming, in-process, and final inspection programs.
• Ensure inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and quality documentation requirements are met.
• Support Functional Acceptance Test, Site Acceptance Test, and commissioning activities.
• Partner with Engineering and Procurement to develop supplier quality requirements, qualification processes, and performance evaluations.
• Conduct supplier audits and drive corrective actions.
• Lead quality planning for major programs and deliveries.
• Develop quality training and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Select and implement appropriate improvement methodologies such Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, or Kaizen.
• Advise leadership on quality risks, compliance, and operational excellence.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Physics, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality…