Finiti Partners Hiring! Full Time Principal Quality Engineer in - Ricebowl

Principal Quality Engineer (Advanced Photonics & High-Tech Manufacturing)

We are seeking a senior quality leader to drive product quality, reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives for advanced electro-optical products within a fast-paced technology environment. This role will partner closely with engineering, operations, and customer-facing teams to ensure robust product performance throughout the product lifecycle. This is a senior technical leadership role ideal for a quality professional who combines deep laser technology expertise with a passion for driving product excellence and operational quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality engineering activities across product development, qualification, and manufacturing.
• Drive root cause investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement programs.
• Develop and maintain quality plans, process controls, and reliability strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve product quality, manufacturing yield, and operational efficiency.
• Lead customer quality activities, audits, and issue resolution efforts.
• Support supplier quality management and risk mitigation initiatives.
• Utilize quality methodologies including FMEA, SPC, DOE, CAPA, and statistical analysis.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership on quality-related matters.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of extensive experience in Quality engineering within high-tech manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of product qualification, reliability testing, failure analysis, and process improvement.
• Experience working with complex electronic, laser, photonics, optical, semiconductor, or precision-engineered products.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional quality and reliability initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

• Experience with advanced manufacturing technologies, lasers, photonics, optoelectronic systems, semiconductor devices, precision instrumentation, or related products.
• Six Sigma certification or equivalent quality credentials.
• Experience supporting global customers, suppliers, and manufacturing operations.