Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Chassis

About Lucid

At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.

We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility.

We are seeking a Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Chassis Systems to drive best-in-class product quality throughout industrialization development process. This high-visibility role demands technical expertise, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to excel in a complex, fast‑paced environment.

To succeed, you must possess deep technical expertise in implementing quality and reliability best practices, driving innovation, and ensuring product validation. Candidates must demonstrate exceptional performance, leadership, and the ability to excel in a fast‑paced environment. The ideal candidate is proactive, determined, and has a proven track record in quality program management within the automotive industry.

• Lead and continuously improve supplier APQP execution from initial design through PPAP approval and the start of mass production, ensuring deliverables, quality gates, and risks are visible and closed on time.
• Lead design and manufacturing reviews for chassis structures and related components, integrate DFM/A requirements early, and establish clear quality and process capability expectations before tooling and production release.
• Drive supplier‑owned engineering changes and production change activities, ensuring technical impacts, validation requirements, timing, and implementation risks are understood and controlled.
• Partner with Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Incoming Quality, Material Planning, Purchasing, and plant Supplier Quality teams to contain supplier issues, protect Lucid plants and customers, and deploy lessons learned across programs.
• Conduct supplier assessments, sourcing audits, process reviews, and site inspections; establish improvement plans and hold suppliers accountable for sustained performance against agreed metrics.
• Analyze supplier and assembly build data to assess process capability, identify emerging risks, and drive corrective and preventive actions that support build and launch requirements.
• Maintain clear process documentation and ensure supplier quality activities align with ISO 9001 and AIAG/IATF 16949 expectations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in high-volume manufacturing or assembly environments within Supplier Quality, Quality Engineering, R&D, or Manufacturing Engineering, including at least 6 years of hands‑on APQP and PPAP program execution.
• Demonstrated expertise industrializing chassis or complex metal components using relevant processes such as metal forming, forging, stamping, extrusion, rolling, machining, casting, heat treatment, coatings, rubber extrusion, vulcanization, assembly, and associated…