Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will provide technical leadership on a daily basis by developing, establishing, and maintaining quality engineering methodologies, systems, and practices which meet world class standards. This position will also drive product/process improvements with the objective of compliance safety and high customer satisfaction.

This position will work alongside manufacturing evaluating process methods and equipment to meet performance and quality requirements. This position will oversee the company’s delivery supplies and ensure the efficiency and quality of these supplies through Vicarious Surgical’s supplier management process.

Vicarious Surgical is a next generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedure, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs.

Key Responsibilities

• Must be able to interface well with management, Supply Chain, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and R&D Engineering.
• Support quality management programs such as supplier selection and certification. Perform supplier evaluations as needed to assure supplier capabilities including the assessment of the adequacy of inspection methods, manufacturing practices, and control and quality procedures to deliver conforming products in a timely manner. 
• Lead supplier audits and works with suppliers to resolve audit findings and/or nonconformance's.
• Assist in the development of the inspection department. Establish Quality Inspection Plans for the release of components, assemblies, and finished devices. Conduct quality inspections as needed.
• Prepare nonconforming reports as required and assist in the disposition decisions and approval.
• Support Operations with equipment qualifications (IQ/OQ/PQ), process validations and process improvements.  Includes the use of various statistical techniques and quality tools.
• Experienced with statistical techniques, including design of experiments (DOE); able to analyze results.
• Experience with product and packaging labeling.
• Lead and support test method validations plans/protocols and reports.
• Perform internal audits as needed.
• Ability to deliver, meet deadlines and be results oriented.

About You

• 5+ years as an Engineer in a related field or a combination of equivalent education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Process Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, or equivalent degree.
• Highly motivated and self-directed with a strong sense of urgency, with an ability to pull in resources from other departments as required.
• Excellent Communications Skills (oral, written, presentation) at different organizational levels.
• Regulated industry preferred.
• Experience with root cause analysis tools and methods.
• Working knowledge of defect avoidance methodologies such as poke yoke, DFMEA/PFMEA, DOE.

Together, we share a love for learning and we are passionate teachers.  As a company, we set ambitious goals and individually, we share in that ambition. At the office, we enjoy each other’s company during monthly social, catered lunches and company celebrations.

Please note that at Vicarious Surgical, we follow COVID-19 safety protocol, which may include compliance with vaccination, testing and masking requirements.