As a Senior Quality Engineer at Fauna Robotics, you will lead quality systems throughout the hardware development and production lifecycle. You will collaborate with various teams to establish robust quality processes and ensure that products meet reliability and safety standards. The role involves working closely with contract manufacturers and driving quality improvements in a startup environment. Fauna Robotics aims to make robotics accessible and delightful for everyday life.

• 5+ years of quality engineering experience in a hardware product company such as consumer electronics, robotics, or medical devices.
• Hands-on experience with quality systems in a contract manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency with inspection tools, metrology, and functional test methods for electromechanical assemblies.
• Experience authoring work instructions, ATPs, and inspection criteria for production.
• Experience with robotics, mechatronics, or complex electromechanical systems.
• Background in early-stage or startup hardware environments where quality systems were built from scratch.
• Exposure to battery/energy storage compliance including UN38.3 and UL2054.
• Familiarity with IPC standards such as IPC-A-610 and IPC-J-STD-001.
• Experience with PLM/QMS tools like Arena, ETQ, or Greenlight Guru.

• Develop, implement, and maintain quality management systems appropriate for a hardware startup in early production.
• Establish and own incoming inspection, in-process inspection, and final inspection criteria and procedures.
• Define and drive First Article Inspection processes with our contract manufacturer.
• Create and manage Non-Conformance Reports, CAPAs, and deviation/waiver processes.
• Author and maintain clear, accurate work instructions, assembly procedures, and inspection checklists for the production floor.
• Ensure documentation is version-controlled and synchronized with engineering changes.
• Partner with engineering to enforce Design for Manufacturability and Design for Testability principles.
• Serve as a key quality interface with contractors by conducting audits and reviewing quality plans.
• Travel to contract manufacturer facilities as needed to support builds and resolve quality escapes.
• Establish quality metrics and reporting cadences with contract manufacturer leadership.
• Lead or support DFMEA/PFMEA activities to proactively identify and mitigate failure modes.
• Support product safety and compliance activities such as UL, CE, RoHS, and UN38.3 for battery.
• Drive reliability testing planning and execution, including environmental stress screening and accelerated life testing.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.