System Quality Engineer

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We are looking for System Quality Engineer (SQE) – Hardware-Only Projects to join our growing team in United States

Location: US (Remote)

Must-haves:
1.Experience in project quality assurance, governance, or systems engineering
2.Strong understanding of risk management, project lifecycle, and quality processes
3.Experience working with project tracking and reporting tools (e.g., ADO, ServiceNow, or similar)
4.Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Job Summary
The System Quality Engineer (SQE) for Hardware-Only projects is responsible for providing independent quality governance, assurance, and oversight across the project lifecycle. This role ensures that project risks, health status, and validation evidence are accurately represented, visible, and aligned with actual conditions.
The SQE serves as a quality subject matter expert (SME) and advisor, reinforcing accountability with Project Managers (PMs) and project teams while identifying and escalating risks, gaps, and recurring issues. This position maintains clear boundaries between oversight and execution, ensuring project teams retain delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities:
Governance & Quality Oversight:
Perform regular project health assessments to validate alignment between reported and actual conditions
Provide independent oversight of project quality, risk visibility, and governance processes
Monitor key governance artifacts (RIDAC, PHA, compliance metrics) for accuracy and completeness
Risk, Issue, and Data Validation
Review project risk and issue tracking (RIDAC) for quality, aging, categorization, and visibility
Identify incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate data and flag for PM correction
Escalate recurring or unresolved issues to maintain transparency and accountability
Ensure ownership of risk and issue management remains with the Project Manager

Project Health & Reporting:
Validate Project Health Assessment (PHA) against verified project conditions
Identify and challenge misalignment between reported status and actual progress
Support consistent and accurate quality reporting (e.g., weekly updates)

Risk Identification & Escalation:
Proactively identify risks, gaps, and inconsistencies
Differentiate between isolated issues and systemic patterns
Escalate recurring issues and support corrective action through governance channels

Quality Standards & Documentation:
Define and maintain quality documentation standards, templates, and runbooks
Ensure validation evidence requirements are clearly established and understood
Support audit readiness by ensuring documentation is accessible and complete

Validation & Evidence Assurance:
Verify that validation activities have been completed and are supported by evidence
Confirm documentation demonstrates:
What was validated
Who performed validation
When validation occurred
Escalate gaps in validation evidence or documentation

Stakeholder Engagement:
Provide guidance to PMs and project teams on quality expectations and governance standards
Reinforce accountability and role clarity across project teams
Redirect execution-related requests to appropriate owners

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Quality Management, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience in project quality assurance, governance, or systems engineering
Strong understanding of risk management, project lifecycle, and quality processes
Experience working with project tracking and reporting tools (e.g., ADO, ServiceNow, or similar)
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience supporting hardware-only or infrastructure-focused projects
Familiarity with governance frameworks, audit processes, and compliance standards
Experience with requirements traceability, validation practices, or quality reporting tools
Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional and matrixed environments
Scope of Responsibility (Role Boundaries)

SQE Responsibilities:
Governance, assurance, and quality oversight
Validation of project data, reporting accuracy, and risk visibility
Identification and escalation of issues and gaps
Definition of quality standards and documentation expectations

Out of Scope Responsibilities:
Creating, updating, or maintaining RIDAC items
Correcting project schedules or performing data cleanup
Executing project deliverables or recovery activities
Performing administrative or operational project tasks
Expanding beyond governance, assurance, and reporting responsibilities

Key Competencies
Strong attention to detail and data validation accuracy
Ability to maintain independence and objectivity
Effective stakeholder communication and escalation skills
Critical thinking and risk identification
Ability to enforce standards while preserving relationships

Success Measures
Accurate and transparent representation of project health
Timely identification and escalation of risks and issues
Clear accountability maintained with Project Managers and teams
Consistent adherence to governance and quality standards
Audit-ready documentation and validation evidence across projects

Benefits

Why QualityAI?

• Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace – we are one, we are many at QualityAI. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities.
• Local and global opportunities – we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career.
• Clear view of your career and progression with the company – QualityAI is growing massively (since 2021 – tripled our employees base – we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.
• Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers. Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where QualityAI will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan.
• Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. QualityAI will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate.
• Never stop experimenting and learning with QCraft – our Learning & Development platform: 50,000+ courses, 300+ virtual labs, mentorship and leadership programs, professional tribes, sponsored certifications, and much more.
• Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program’s. Refer and earn – tap your network for net-worth.
• We recognize our employees work via our Qudos platform - You can earn bonuses and spot awards by celebrating your and your peers’ achievements.
• Planning a vacation? Looking for car insurance? Get access to QualityAI Employee Perks for discounts on anything from travel to electronics. With so many offerings the savings are endless!
• A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $110,000 - $125,000.
• Intrigued to find more about us?
• Visit our website at https://www.quality-ai.com/
• If you like what you have read, send us your resume and let’s start talking!