DoorDash USA
Manufacturing Quality Engineer
About this role
Lead the establishment of a comprehensive quality program for an autonomous food-delivery robot assembly line, transitioning from prototype to scalable production. You'll architect quality systems, supplier partnerships, and manufacturing controls while reporting directly to the Head of Manufacturing in Fremont, CA.
What you'll do
- Build end-to-end quality program including process documentation, traceability, and manufacturing control plans
- Define quality standards and inspection criteria for parts, sub-assemblies, and incoming materials
- Establish and manage supplier quality function with qualification, audits, PPAP/APQP alignment, and performance monitoring
- Develop PFMEAs in collaboration with systems engineering to connect system-level risks to process controls
- Lead Material Review Board for non-conforming material disposition and drive root-cause analysis and CAPA
- Design in-line quality controls including incoming inspection, in-process checks, and end-of-line validation
What they're looking for
- Supplier quality management and qualification
- APQP, PPAP, MSA, GR&R, and control plan development
- Root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive action (CAPA)
- Statistical process control (SPC)
- PFMEA and risk-based engineering
- QMS integration with ERP systems
- Manufacturing process design for prototype/low-volume lines
- Functional safety standards (ISO 26262, ISO 13849)
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DoorDash USA
DoorDash USA is building autonomous delivery systems including drones and robots, along with internal infrastructure platforms to support large-scale operations. The company is hiring robotics engineers, autonomous systems specialists, infrastructure engineers, and platform software engineers to develop flight control systems, mapping and localization capabilities, and distributed computing platforms.
View all jobs at DoorDash USALikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience establishing a supplier quality program from scratch—what frameworks and metrics did you use to qualify and monitor suppliers?
- Describe a time you developed a PFMEA for a complex electromechanical system. How did you ensure the resulting controls were both effective and manufacturable?