Product Quality Engineer

About Us

Day to day life has room for improvement.

That was our basic thinking when we founded simplehuman in 2000. Our mission is to bring high-performance and sustainable innovation to basic but essential tasks in our daily routine at home.  Through new technologies, meticulous engineering and an obsession for improvement, we find new and better ways to achieve basic but important daily tasks. 
 

The role…

simplehuman is seeking a Product Quality Engineer with a mechanical engineering background to join our Quality team.   This role will help our quality engineering efforts for New Product Introduction (NPI) and Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) over the entire product life cycle.  This role will be a crucial Quality engineer for our company, and will play an important piece to our product development and sustaining engineering process.  

The engineer will develop and execute exploratory and automated product testing to ensure product quality during new product development as well as existing product improvements.  The engineer will handle multiple projects, deadlines and help to allocate resources. The ideal candidate must possess strong communication skills and the ability to work well with other engineers, product managers, external vendors, suppliers and manufacturers to solve problems in a fast-paced environment.  

This is a great entry-level position for a Mechanical Engineering major interested to learn about consumer and consumer electronics product development in a small, agile culture. 

This is a full-time, on-site position based in our Torrance, CA office. This is NOT a remote position.
 

Responsibilities:

• Manage all product quality from NPI to sustaining
• Create test plan and perform testing prior to product production release
• Evaluate hardware and software conformance and performance
• Develop and improve test methods and equipment
• Analyze testing data to assist design engineers in decision-making
• Compile and write training materials on quality control activities
• Evaluate product performance for continuous improvements
• Project management and coordination with internal teams and vendors/manufacturers

You...

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 0-5 years of QA, product quality, or product reliability experience in consumer electronics
• Knowledge of injection molding and sheet metal fabrication
• Knowledge of Solidworks/Creo/Catia and mechanical drawings (GD&T)
• Has understanding on Acceptance Quality Limit (AQLs)
• Some software testing experience is a plus
• A problem solver
• Strong attention to detail and organization
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication skills

Us...

We're a mature company with the soul of a start-up.  We value ingenuity, precise communications, fast iteration and scrappiness.  Our teams are tight-knit with a work hard, play hard tradition – we take pride in individual and team success and push boundaries to make the best products.  And we only build products we love to use ourselves. 

·       Cool office with full-court gym + fitness activities/classes (basketball, yoga, volleyball, pickleball, krav maga, more) + weight room

·       Free weekly lunch + birthday celebrations + holiday parties/trips + juice club

·       Generous simplehuman product discounts