Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Support total quality management (TQM) systems across materials and device development through defining and improving procedures, specifications, and ensuring change control.
• Apply DMAIC (Define–Measure–Analyze–Improve–Control) principles to emerging perovskite technologies, from lab scale to pilot and manufacturing environments.
• Advance the development and tracking of key quality metrics (e.g., yield, reliability indicators, defect rates) and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers, vendors and other external partners including due diligence, joint development planning, and quality-related risk assessments.
• Support the negotiation of technical statements of work, quality specifications, and acceptance criteria for materials and equipment in partnership with internal customers.
• Collaborate with partner organizations to qualify materials and equipment, resolve quality issues, and improve performance and reliability of them.
• Analyze process, characterization, and reliability data to drive root-cause investigations and implement robust corrective actions both internally and externally.
• Establish control strategies and monitoring plans to drive continuous improvement cycles.
• Work closely with R&D, process engineering, reliability, and operations teams to embed quality principles into technology roadmaps and development milestones.

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters degree in Engineering or Science.
• Minimum of 2 years of practical, interdisciplinary experience which may include manufacturing and/or R&D (Solar, Semiconductor, Batteries, Optics, MEMS, or related technologies).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document methods and present technical results clearly.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• Applying DMAIC or similar structured process-improvement methodologies to advanced or emerging technologies using modern statistical methods.
• Synthesis, processing, and characterization of hybrid perovskite thin-film photovoltaic materials, the integration of those materials into photovoltaic devices and the characterization and testing of such devices.
• Selecting, negotiating agreements with, and/or developing technology in collaboration with external firms (e.g., start-ups, medium, and large companies).