Hardware at TRACTIAN
The Hardware team is responsible for designing and improving our IoT devices, dealing with every step of the development process, ranging from PCB design, firmware programming, case design, validations and certifications, always aiming to build trustworthy products that can be produced at a mass scale.
What you'll do
As a Quality Engineer at Tractian, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our hardware products and solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including design, manufacturing, and quality assurance, to ensure that our products meet rigorous quality requirements and exceed customer expectations. Additionally, you will be responsible for identifying and collaborating with suppliers who share our commitment to excellence, further enhancing our supply chain efficiency and ensuring the consistent quality of the materials used in our products. Your expertise will contribute significantly to our mission of delivering exceptional IIoT solutions to industries worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the design and manufacturing teams to define quality standards, specifications, and inspection criteria for mechanical components and assemblies.
- Conduct thorough quality assessments of incoming materials, ensuring they meet specified requirements and are free from defects.
- Develop and implement quality control processes, including inspection plans, testing procedures, and relevant documentation.
- Perform root cause analysis and corrective actions for any quality issues identified during testing or production, and track these actions to closure.
- Participate in the design review process to provide insights on potential quality concerns and ensure design for manufacturability and assembly (DFM and DFA).
- Conduct regular audits of manufacturing processes to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure adherence to quality standards.
- Collaborate with suppliers to improve component quality, resolve quality-related issues, and drive continuous improvement in the supply chain.
- Work closely with the production team to support process validation and ensure consistency in manufacturing processes.
- Maintain accurate records of quality assurance activities, including test results, inspection reports, and non-conformance documentation.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of quality documentation, including standard operating procedures, work instructions, and quality manuals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Quality Engineer, preferably in a manufacturing or technology-driven environment.
- Strong understanding of mechanical engineering principles, materials, and manufacturing processes.
- Familiarity in quality tools, methodologies and documentation such as 8D, DMAIC, NCR, EA and statistical process control.
- Experience with inspection techniques, metrology, GD&T, and non-destructive testing methods.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to lead root cause analysis investigations.
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 or other quality management systems is a plus.
- Reading and Writing English proficiency.
Bonus Points
- Experience with microcasting and sintering.
- Experience with plastic injection and mold manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of Reliability Engineering and its tools.
- Spanish proficiency.
Top Skills
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
