WHOOP · 5 hours ago
Senior Hardware Quality Engineer (NPI)
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expWHOOP is on a mission to unlock human performance by empowering users to understand their bodies and daily lives better. As a Senior Hardware Quality Engineer (NPI), you will collaborate with various teams to ensure new products meet quality standards and are launched without critical quality issues.
Consumer ElectronicsFitnessSportsWearablesWellness
Responsibilities
Organize and assist with the execution of risk assessment on equipment, GR&R, assembly process, and customer use case to meet rigorous quality standards
Represent quality and report status and risk mitigation in NPI Program Reviews
Partner with peer teams such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Test Engineering to drive data-driven risk mitigation/strategy
Report in program reviews and top-level quality performance reviews/dashboards
Define NPI quality deliverables and deliver in collaboration with stakeholders in Hardware Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Deployment, and Global Support ServicesManage NPI quality program schedule and respective engagement planning
Manage NPI quality program schedule and respective engagement planning
Participate in NPI phase gate reviews to ensure quality requirements are met
Facilitate and lead root cause analysis by using quality tools and corrective/ preventive action concepts to resolve high risk/high impact problems/nonconformities
Drive on After Actions Review for improvement
Establish Whoop QMS system and drive essential processes and quality plans
Help to set right metrics to measure NPI product quality success criteria
Centralize all quality function requirements
Support sustaining product quality activities
30% travel domestically and internationally to partners, suppliers, and contract manufacturers
Qualification
Required
Advanced degree(s) in Engineering, Mechanical, or EE
Technical in Electrical components and Mechanical in wearable electronics (i.e battery, sensors, motors, PCBAs, metal fabrication, plastics, etc.)
Minimum 5 years' in NPI product quality role in Consumer electronics and/or wellness/fitness, High-Tech, Medical industries
Strong ability to communicate ideas or viewpoints supported by objective data to influence all levels of the organization to develop and launch products that set the standards of quality in the industry in terms of hardware build quality and user experience
Six Sigma Green Belt
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
Familiar with ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standards
Experienced in statistical data analysis
Benefits
Competitive base salaries
Meaningful equity
Benefits
A generous equity package
Company
WHOOP
WHOOP is a fitness tech company that offers wearables that track sleep, recovery, and performance.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (15)
2022 (5)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$404.75MKey Investors
SoftBank Vision FundIVPFoundry Group
2026-01-15Undisclosed
2021-08-30Series F· $200M
2020-10-28Series E· $100M
Leadership Team
Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO
Aurelian Nicolae
Co-Founder & Chief Hardware Engineer
Recent News
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