Mechanical Quality Engineer (Teradyne, Agoura Hills, CA)

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Opportunity Overview

The Memory Test Division is seeking a Mechanical Quality Engineer to join our Mechanical Quality Engineering team in Agoura Hills, California.

In this role, you will help drive quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across Teradyne's advanced semiconductor test platforms. You will partner closely with mechanical engineering, systems engineering, manufacturing, NPI, sourcing, supplier quality, and global development teams to ensure products achieve quality, reliability, manufacturability, performance, and customer satisfaction objectives throughout the product lifecycle.

This position offers a unique opportunity to combine mechanical engineering expertise with quality engineering principles while influencing product development from concept through production and field support. The successful candidate will apply technical judgment, risk-based decision making, and structured problem-solving methodologies to improve product quality and reduce engineering and manufacturing defects.

In This Role You Will

Quality Engineering & Product Development

• Drive quality planning activities throughout the product development lifecycle, including risk assessments, design reviews, quality plans, and qualification strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure quality requirements are incorporated into product requirements, design decisions, and development processes.
• Support design tradeoff evaluations and help identify key product, process, manufacturing, and reliability risks.
• Facilitate Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Process FMEA, Control Plans, and Design for Quality activities.
• Support product development teams through engineering changes, product releases, and sustaining engineering activities.

Mechanical Engineering & Technical Execution

• Apply mechanical engineering fundamentals and quality engineering best practices to evaluate and improve electro-mechanical system designs.
• Translate quality and reliability objectives into actionable design and verification requirements.
• Assess mechanical components, assemblies, and subsystem designs for manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, and performance.
• Interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and GD&T requirements while supporting tolerance analysis and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify robust and cost-effective mechanical solutions.

Verification, Validation & Reliability

• Plan, coordinate, and support design verification, validation, and reliability qualification activities.
• Develop verification approaches that adequately assess performance, reliability, manufacturability, and customer requirements.
• Support fixture development, test execution, data collection, and qualification reporting activities.
• Analyze quality and reliability data to identify trends, drive corrective actions, and improve overall product performance.

Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement

• Lead root cause investigations involving product, manufacturing, supplier, and field quality issues using structured methodologies such as 8D, 5 Why, A3, and CAPA.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions to address recurring issues and improve long-term product quality.
• Conduct failure analysis and coordinate corrective actions across engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing defects, improving process capability, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Supplier & Manufacturing Quality

• Collaborate with suppliers and internal manufacturing teams to improve quality performance and resolve component and assembly quality concerns.
• Support manufacturing readiness reviews, inspection strategies, and process validation activities.
• Evaluate supplier performance and participate in supplier corrective action activities as needed.
• Partner with global supply base teams to ensure manufacturable and reliable product solutions.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership on quality initiatives and influence decision-making through data-driven recommendations.
• Facilitate effective communication across geographically distributed teams.
• Support education and training related to quality processes, engineering standards, workmanship expectations, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain quality documentation, procedures, standards, metrics, and engineering reports.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5-8 years of experience in mechanical engineering, quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals, quality engineering principles, and product development processes.
• Experience applying structured problem-solving methodologies and leading root cause investigations.
• Working knowledge of GD&T, engineering drawings, tolerance analysis, and mechanical design principles.
• Experience supporting design verification, validation, and reliability testing activities.
• Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and project coordination skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional development environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with semiconductor test equipment, capital equipment, automation systems, or complex electro-mechanical products.
• Experience with supplier quality management, manufacturing process controls, and product lifecycle quality systems.
• Working knowledge of DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, CAPA, Design for Quality, and reliability methodologies.
• Experience with SOLIDWORKS, Teamcenter/PDM systems, and engineering simulation tools such as ANSYS or SolidWorks Simulation.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) methodologies.
• Experience with quality metrics, statistical analysis, and reliability data evaluation.
• Knowledge of SEMI standards.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent quality certification.

Compensation:
The base salary range for this role is $158,600 - $253,800. This range is a good faith estimate, and the amount of base salary will correspond with experience and skill set. This range can also fluctuate depending on demand and location. 

Incentive Plan: This job is eligible for discretionary bonus(es) based on financial performance.

Benefits: Teradyne offers a variety of comprehensive health and well-being benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, and more.  Please click here to see details

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