Senior Manager Quality Engineering

About 1X

We’re building humanoid robots that work in any space humans exist with the mission to create an abundance of labor. Simple, but it’s not.

To do this right, we have to solve robotics, AI, software, hardware, manufacturing and operations at the same time, at scale, in a form factor that has to be safe. If you’re inspired by this, you’ll thrive here. We’ve been at this since 2014 and we’re at the point where the hard problems are behind us and the hard work is in front of us.

NEO is our flagship - a general purpose robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people. We’re not demoing it, we're shipping it. We’re excited to meet you, if this excites you.

If you’ve spent your career working on problems that matter and want to see them actually reach the world - this is that moment. We’re scaling, we’re hiring with intention, and we need people who want to build something that will genuinely change how humans spend their time safely creating abundance for all.

The Quality Engineering team enables 1X to scale complex humanoid robot hardware with speed, confidence, and strong manufacturing discipline. We partner across Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Software, and Operations to build quality into the product and production system from the beginning.

As we scale NEO, the team owns quality across new product introduction, production, incoming inspection, MRB, and quality systems. Our goal is to solve quality problems at the source while building practical systems that improve product reliability without slowing engineering or production.

Build and lead a high-performing Quality Engineering organization that establishes quality from product design through production. You will own quality planning, manufacturing controls, production quality, incoming inspection, MRB, and quality system development while driving technical problem-solving across critical robot systems.

Your charter is to translate design intent into robust manufacturing and inspection controls, resolve quality issues at their source, and build a scalable quality organization that supports 1X’s path to production.

• Build and lead the Quality Engineering organization, including Quality Engineers and the Quality Technician Supervisor, with clear ownership across NPI, production quality, incoming inspection, MRB, and quality systems.

• Establish quality planning for new products by translating design requirements into measurable manufacturing controls, inspection strategies, control plans, and acceptance criteria.

• Lead PFMEA and control plan development with Design and Manufacturing Engineering to identify critical risks and establish effective prevention, detection, and reaction controls.

• Drive timely resolution of significant production and incoming quality issues through containment, structured root cause analysis, corrective action, and verification of durable fixes.

• Develop and improve practical Quality Management Systems and MRB processes that establish traceability, disciplined decision-making, and useful quality data without unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Partner with Design, Manufacturing, Software, Supply Chain, and Operations to improve product and process quality across motors, batteries, electronics, structural assemblies, and other critical robot systems.

• Use inspection results, metrology, defect trends, and production feedback to prioritize systemic improvements, communicate quality performance to leadership, and raise the quality bar as production scales.

• Technical and hands-on quality engineering leader who can build an organization while remaining close to complex manufacturing and product quality problems.

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