Lead Hardware Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and own the hardware quality plan
• Build a complete quality plan covering all Vizzia hardware products, with clear deliverables for each hardware function
• Set quality standards and acceptance criteria that everyone on the team can reference
• Ensure the plan is shared, understood, and applied — not just a document that lives on a drive
• Write, share and roll out quality processes across the full hardware development chain
• Create the internal and external templates the team and suppliers will use day-to-day (test plans, audit forms, non-conformity reports, certification documentation)
• Train and coach the hardware team to embed these processes into their work
• Define test plans for every Vizzia hardware product
• Ensure test plans are executed systematically before products reach production
• Trace results so nothing falls through the cracks
• Establish structured supplier quality control, starting with Altior and extending to other manufacturing partners
• Lead audits, define corrective action plans and follow them through to closure
• Travel to China approximately twice a year to audit suppliers and align on quality expectations on site
• Ensure certification-related documentation (CE in particular) is complete, up-to-date and audit-ready at any time
• Build traceability that allows reconstruction of the full history of any product version, any change, or any non-conformity
• Improve field reliability over time — increase mean time to failure and reduce field returns

Requirements

• Approximately 10 years of experience in hardware quality engineering in industries where quality is critical
• Experience in highly regulated industries (medical, defense, aerospace) and a clear understanding of rigorous quality discipline
• Strong knowledge of CE standards and proven ability to take a product through certification without surprises
• Experience auditing and working with manufacturing suppliers, ideally including suppliers in China, and comfortable with travel there
• A combination of rigor and diplomacy: you can bring hardware teams on board without becoming the "quality police"
• Patient and tenacious: quality is a long-term effort and you don’t give up when short-term pressures arise