Quality Engineering Mgr, Quality Engineering Manager

The Quality Engineering Manager (QEM) is responsible for ensuring that our products are designed for quality and continue to meet our customers high expectations during the life of the product. They will focus on product quality deliverables during our product launch and sustaining. The successful candidate will establish quality goals and monitor performance investigate with the full suite of failure analysis tools influencing root cause and subsequent closed loop corrective action. Leads quality lessons learned and institutes remedies to prevent re-occurrence of quality issues and possess a high sense of urgency when managing critical issues. Their responsibility will require knowledge across a broad scope of quality from factory process controls to customer service complaint handling.

Key job responsibilities
Quality Engineering Manager will be responsible for identifying risks and working with the appropriate product development and sustaining engineering functions to ensure the critical and high risk items are resolved prior to shipping a product and moreover dont make it into next generation addition to the work done in the New Product Introduction (NPI) & Sustaining phases the Sr. QEM will drive continuous improvement in all aspects of the job be able to deal with ambiguity and influence at all levels of the company.

A day in the life
- Manage quality program deliverables end-to-end host milestone review meetings and ensure cross-functional alignment throughout NPI and Sustaining phases
- Communicate quality status risks and recommendations clearly to leadership driving timely decisions to protect customer experience
- Influence cross-functional partnersincluding design manufacturing and supply chainto prioritize and resolve quality issues that impact customers
- Train and manage supplier quality teams; build supplier capability to meet Amazons quality standards
- Analyze field and factory data using AI-powered tools (e.g. anomaly detection predictive quality monitoring) alongside JMP or Minitab to accelerate root cause identification
- Leverage AI assistants for report generation data summarization and trend analysis to improve team efficiency
- Drive closed-loop corrective actions and quality lesson-learned sessions to prevent issue recurrence
- Guide cross-functional teams in Design for Quality and advanced quality methodologies (FMEA DOE DMAIC)
- Up to 80% domestic and international travel required

About the team
The Quality Engineering & Management (QEM) team ensures excellence across Amazons device lineup and services. They oversee quality for Echo devices Fire TV products Fire Tablets and Kindle e-readers alongside core services like Alexa Voice Service Amazon Music and Prime Video. The team work with cross functional teams based in manufacturing suppliers and engineers who conduct comprehensive testing including SMT FATP hardware/software validation performance evaluation and user experience assessment. The QEM team maintains Amazons high standards throughout the product lifecycle ensuring optimal customer experience across all devices and services.

- 4 years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with prototyping and implementation

- Knowledge of SolidWorks simulation or Ansys Finite Element analysis tools
- Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume

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