Supplier Quality Engineer, Lead
Role Scope
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of supplier quality engineers across manufacturing and data center infrastructure disciplines, owning quality from supplier selection through delivery.
Lead supplier qualification, audits, and ongoing performance management for both manufactured components and data center building materials and systems.
Develop and enforce quality control standards, inspection protocols, and acceptance criteria across the supplier base.
Serve as the organizational SME on supplier quality, guiding procurement, engineering, and construction stakeholders.
Own quality KPIs and metrics, and drive root-cause and corrective action on supplier quality issues through to closure.
Represent the function in leadership reviews and executive escalations, and support customer executive business reviews.
What We're Looking For
- You've led supplier quality across manufacturing and large-scale infrastructure or construction, owning quality end to end from supplier selection through delivery.
- You've managed and grown a team of quality engineers and set the standard for the function.
- You run supplier qualification, audits, and corrective-action processes that hold suppliers to a high bar.
- You know quality systems and methods (inspection protocols, root-cause analysis, corrective action) deeply enough to be the org SME.
- You communicate credibly at the executive and founder level, in leadership reviews and customer business reviews.
- Bonus: Supplier quality across both hardware manufacturing and construction materials. Hyperscale or data center supply chains. Six Sigma or CQE. Building a supplier quality function from scratch.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
Career Information
- The base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $220,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
- Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.
- We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
- Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
- You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email careers@fluidstack.io with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.
- Career Information: Compensation Range: $175K - $250K