Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking a Quality Engineer for a direct hire opportunity in Fremont, CA, supporting high-reliability manufacturing operations for printed circuit board assemblies. This role is focused on ensuring the integrity, compliance, and performance of conformal coating processes in a regulated electronics manufacturing environment.
The Quality Engineer will work closely with quality leadership, production teams, operators, and inspectors to uphold IPC, customer, internal, and industry workmanship standards. This is a strong opportunity for a quality professional who enjoys hands-on process validation, inspection support, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
This position offers the chance to contribute to a quality-driven culture where precision, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement are valued. Candidates who thrive in structured manufacturing environments and want to grow within a supportive team will find this role both challenging and rewarding.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure conformal coating operations comply with IPC, NASA, MIL, customer-specific, and internal quality standards.
- Support incoming, in-process, final, masking, demasking, UV, and First Article inspections for PCB assemblies.
- Validate coating thickness measurement methods, traveler documentation, and photo verification processes.
- Support NCRs, DMRs, RCCA, CAPAs, SCARs, internal audits, and quality alert generation.
- Train operators and inspectors on coating quality standards, customer workmanship requirements, ESD, FOD, and material handling practices.
- Create and maintain work instructions, SOPs, inspection documentation, and quality records in systems such as JIRA.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $90,000 to $95,000 per year.
- Job type: Direct hire.
- Location: Fremont, CA.
- Support conformal coating quality engineering activities for PCB assemblies in a manufacturing environment.
- Validate coating processes, inspection methods, traveler documentation, and compliance requirements.
- Support quality inspections, First Article Inspection, FAIRs, NCRs, DMRs, RCCA, CAPAs, and SCARs.
- Train production and inspection teams on workmanship standards, coating requirements, ESD, FOD, and material handling.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant quality engineering or quality assurance experience in manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of IPC-610, J-STD-001, and IPC-7711/7721 standards.
- Experience with conformal coating materials, coating inspection, process development, and quality validation.
- Ability to perform or support UV light inspection, magnification inspection, coating hardness testing, and durometer testing.
- Experience creating work instructions, SOPs, audit documentation, inspection records, and quality reports.
- Ability to review Certificates of Conformance for accuracy prior to shipment.
- Strong attention to detail, documentation accuracy, problem-solving ability, and commitment to continuous improvement.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with quality, production, engineering, and leadership teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in high-reliability electronics, aerospace, defense, medical device, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
- Familiarity with NASA, MIL, and customer-specific quality requirements.
- Experience using JIRA or similar systems to record and manage quality inspection results.
- Hands-on experience with conformal coating rework, stripping, masking, and demasking processes.
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