Senior Quality & Reliability Engineer

Optivolt is seeking a Senior Quality & Reliability Engineer to lead the development of our quality systems and infrastructure. This role will be instrumental in ensuring robust, consistent manufacturing outcomes across our contract manufacturing (CM) partners and validating product performance with third-party labs.

You will play a hands-on role — not only defining quality and reliability standards but also designing custom test equipment tailored to Optivolt’s unique hardware. Your work will directly support production scale-up and field reliability, ensuring our systems perform in demanding real-world environments.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and implement quality assurance processes for electrical assemblies at CM partner sites

Define in-process and end-of-line test procedures; drive process audits and corrective actions with CMs

Design, prototype, and deploy custom test fixtures and automation for reliability and production validation

Collaborate with third-party labs to validate safety, performance, and environmental compliance

Conduct hands-on reliability testing (thermal cycling, mechanical shock, power cycling, etc.)

Lead failure analysis investigations (FA, RCA, 8D, FMEA) for field returns and production defects

Maintain quality documentation, traceability, and validation reports for internal and external stakeholders

Influence product design with recommendations for design-for-testability and reliability

Partner cross-functionally to scale testing, inspection, and validation infrastructure as production ramps

Qualifications

5+ years in hardware quality, reliability, or test engineering

Strong hands-on background in electronics and test system development (fixtures, automation, instrumentation)

Proven ability to set up and improve quality systems at contract manufacturing sites

Familiarity with electronics assembly standards (IPC-A-610, ISO 9001) and compliance standards (UL, IEC, etc.)

Experience managing third-party validation partners and coordinating test certification workflows

Skilled in root cause analysis methods (5 Whys, Ishikawa, etc.) and quality metrics (DOE, AQL, CPK, yield, etc.)

Able to travel periodically to CM or lab sites for hands-on setup, validation, and troubleshooting

Comfortable working across engineering, test, and manufacturing teams in a fast-paced environment

Knowledge of Python, LabVIEW or similar for automating test equipment

Preferred Skills

Experience in manufacturing complex electronic products at high volume, e.g. mobile phones, automotive, solar, power electronics, or other rugged outdoor electronic systems

Experience building systems during NPI-to-production transitions

Knowledge of photovoltaic systems, photovoltaic optimizers, string inverters, etc.

Join Optivolt and work alongside seasoned engineers with decades of experience and dozens of patents, offering you an unparalleled opportunity to learn and innovate in power electronics. You’ll help build the next generation of solar power optimizers while contributing directly to high-impact, real-world energy systems. We offer a mission-driven culture, competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and the chance to shape the future of clean energy at scale