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title: "Senior Supplier Quality Engineer"
company: "Zoox"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/zoox"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/zoox-senior-supplier-quality-engineer-4a6a393f-9c0b-4ce5-a1b8-de4c00eed14b"
apply_url: "https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/972635b6-713a-44cf-b82f-87a504bcdf3f"
workplace: onsite
location: "Foster City, CA"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: senior
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
salary: "$190,000–$228,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-08-31T18:17:13.460Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-04T17:44:02.837Z
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# Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

**Zoox** · Foster City, CA

Salary: $190,000–$228,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/972635b6-713a-44cf-b82f-87a504bcdf3f

## About Zoox

Zoox is a purpose-built autonomous vehicle designed for riders, not drivers. Learn more about the Zoox robotaxi and the future of ride-hailing.

## About the role

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer will play a key role in ensuring world-class performance of the Zoox prototype and production Seating and Vehicle Interiors supply base, and drive continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, driven, energetic, detailed, and team-oriented, with deep hands-on knowledge of seat systems and interior trim manufacturing.

Candidates with experience across seating and interior commodities — seat structures and mechanisms, foam-in-place and molded foam, cut-and-sew and trim covers, door trim, headliners, and carpet — and a strong working understanding of manufacturing processes such as injection molding, foam molding, cut-and-sew, lamination and wrapping, welding and stamping of seat frames, and electromechanical sub-assembly will be highly preferred.

##### In this role, you will:

- Partner with Vehicle Interiors Engineering, Design, and Strategic Sourcing to select suppliers based on manufacturing capability, capacity, and quality maturity.

- Collaborate with suppliers on design reviews to ensure seats and interior trim parts are manufacturable, and explore new production techniques and materials where needed.

- Lead the supplier industrialization process from design through production ramp-up, including soft tooling to hard tooling transitions.

- Support suppliers with tooling, foam molds, sew fixtures, gauges, and process qualifications; witness and approve tooling and process buy-offs on site.

- Drive the APQP process and support PPAP through start of production, including dimensional, material, appearance, and performance validation.

- Own craftsmanship and appearance quality for occupant-facing surfaces — grain, gloss, color and material matching, gap and flush, seam quality, stitch integrity, and trim fit — and establish master and boundary sample processes with suppliers.

- Ensure supplier compliance with seating safety and interior material requirements, including occupant safety performance, flammability, and durability testing.

- Assess supplier readiness for vehicle builds and help manage production risk ahead of each build phase.

- Train suppliers on Zoox quality systems and review prototype and production part quality documentation.

- Lead root cause and corrective action efforts (8D) for supplier quality issues, and support Manufacturing, Quality, and Vehicle Engineering with analysis and disposition of suspect supplier material.

- Monitor and report supplier quality metrics to drive ongoing improvement across the seating and interiors supply base.

- Use lean and quality tools to improve yield, first-time-through quality, and cycle time throughout the supply base.

- Improve Zoox supplier quality processes such as supplier assessments, supplier management, part approval, and corrective actions.

- Be ready for up to 40% domestic and international travel, sometimes on short notice.

##### Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.

- 8+ years of experience in quality, supplier quality, or manufacturing — ideally in automotive.

- Direct experience with seating and/or interior trim commodities and their supply base.

- Hands-on experience launching new products (NPI) and creating or improving quality systems.

- Experience with manufacturing processes such as injection molding, foam-in-place and molded foam, cut-and-sew, lamination and wrapping, stamping and welding, and electromechanical assembly.

- Skilled in structured problem-solving methods such as Six Sigma, 8D, Pareto analysis, DOE, fishbone, and Is/Is-Not.

- Familiar with core quality tools: process flow diagrams, PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, and process capability studies.

##### Bonus Qualifications

- Experience with seat safety and regulatory requirements, and with seat and trim durability and abuse testing.

- Experience with soft trim materials — leather, textiles, TPO/PVC skins, foams and adhesives — and with material and appearance approval processes.

- Experience with seat comfort and craftsmanship evaluation, including CMF (color, material, finish) alignment with Design.

- Familiarity with seat electronics and mechanisms such as occupant detection sensors, heaters, motors, recliners, and tracks.

- Experience with tooling and fixture validation.

- Certifications such as CQE, ASQ Quality Auditor, or Six Sigma Green/Black Belt.

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