Senior Quality Engineer

Company Overview

Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.

We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.

And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.

We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.

Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.

Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.

Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.

With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.

Join us in building the power foundation of the future!

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to support solid state transformer production. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the Quality Management System to enable high quality products and commercialization. You will partner with design, supply chain, and manufacturing to develop Amperesand’s quality processes, and you will lead regulatory and customer audits to qualify Amperesand as a preferred supplier.

The Quality Engineer is a professional problem solver who can make good use of quality techniques to solve quality challenges and develop reliable processes that prevent creation of defects. The Sr. Quality Engineer will work on high quality products that meet the high reliability standards in the electrical grid equipment business.

• Development of processes to meet the ISO
  9001 standard.
• Lead customer, regulatory and compliance audits.
• Development of manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans to ensure products meet the expectations of our target customers.
• Deployment of manufacturing level requirements to subsystems, assemblies and components to ensure a clear focus on design and customer needs.
• Identification of critical requirements to ensure proper supplier and production focus on critical needs.
• Lead development of FMEAs (Design & Process) for development teams to identify and address critical risks.
• Manage and facilitate the root cause & corrective actions system through tracking and validation of issues and support in root cause analysis through facilitating brainstorming, use of lean methodologies, hypothesis testing, design of experiments, etc.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• ASQ or Six Sigma certification are preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in quality, with background in electrical assemblies and/or power electronics.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are an absolute requirement to establish effective working relationships within Amperesand and its partners.
• Specific training and demonstrated success in applying design for quality and problem-solving methodologies, FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DoE, SPC, etc.
• Str…