The QA Engineer is responsible for improving and enforcing agreed quality standards to ensure Doodle Labs remains always audit-ready while continuing to move fast. Reporting to the QA Manager, you will own the day-to-day execution and follow-through of document control, CAPA closure, and quality visibility—turning quality systems into reliable, scalable operations rather than audit-time fire drills.
What You’ll Do
- Improve and Enforce Document Control
- Take ownership of the existing document control system and strengthen it to support continuous ISO 9001 and defense-grade audit readiness
- Review current document control processes, identify gaps, and implement improvements
- Maintain clear version control, approval workflows, and document traceability
- Drive CAPA Closure and Follow-Through
- Track CAPAs with clear ownership, timelines, and escalation through the QA Manager
- Work with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure corrective actions address root causes
- Verify effectiveness of corrective actions and reduce repeat issues
- Build and Maintain Quality Dashboards
- Track and trend key quality metrics such as defects, First Pass Yield, and ppm
- Maintain dashboards that provide clear visibility into quality performance
- Highlight emerging trends and risks to engineering and operations teams
- Maintain Accurate Inspection Specifications
- Review and update inspection specifications in response to ECNs
- Partner with engineering and manufacturing to align inspection criteria with design intent
- Prevent quality escapes caused by outdated or unclear inspection requirements
- Support Internal Audits and Audit Readiness
- Participate in internal audits and pre-audit activities
- Document findings and support corrective action execution
- Help ensure the organization remains audit-ready at all times
- Reinforce a Culture of Quality Execution
- Communicate quality expectations clearly and consistently
- Follow up to ensure commitments are completed
- Support teams in meeting quality requirements without slowing development
- Additional Role & Responsibilities
- To be main in-charge for some task and assignment. Immediate Superior may from time to time assign additional tasks and projects to the Incumbent.
What You Bring
- Min 3 years of experience in a Quality Engineering or QA role
- Hands-on experience with document control, CAPA, inspections, or quality metrics
- Exposure to ISO 9001 or other structured quality systems
- Ability to drive follow-through across teams through clarity and persistence
- Strong attention to detail and practical judgment
- Manufacturing experience preferred but not required.
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wireless networking solutions. The company focuses on mesh networking for robotic systems, providing high throughput, long-range Mesh Rider solutions for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs and other robotic applications.
The company’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of choice.
Doodle Labs was named one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies 2024," checking in at no. 2 in the Robotics category. Doodle Labs was founded in 1999 and has offices in the United States and Singapore.
Why Work With Us
We are a fast-growing team working with some of the leading innovators creating the technology of the future. Our radios are being used to advance the development and deployment of robotics in various industries. It's been an exciting past few years and we're eager to bring on like-minded people to help us continue to build this company.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are a hybrid team- our employees not in state are remote while our local Los Angeles natives are in office 5 days per week.
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