As a Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer, you will own and drive quality systems across the full hardware development and production lifecycle, from early prototypes through subassembly builds and into volume production at our contract manufacturer. You'll work closely with our mechanical, electrical, embedded software, and manufacturing teams to build robust quality processes, define test coverage strategies, and ensure our products meet reliability, safety, and performance requirements.
Key job responsibilities
Quality on the Production Lines
• Contain defects the day they appear and decide their disposition at the site, using a nonconformance log and a weekly material review board (MRB)
• Close each corrective action only when the fix is verified
• Report first-pass yield, defects per robot, escapes and repeat failures every week
Documentation & Inspection Criteria
• Author and maintain clear, accurate work instructions, assembly procedures, and inspection checklists for the production floor
• Ensure documentation is version-controlled and synchronized with engineering changes
Contract Manufacturer Partnership
• Serve as the key quality interface to our contract manufacturer, reviewing quality plans, conducting audits and driving resolution of production issues
• Travel to CM facilities as needed to support builds and resolve quality escapes
• Establish quality metrics and reporting cadences with CM leadership
Reliability & Compliance
• Lead or support DFMEA/PFMEA activities to proactively identify and mitigate failure modes
• Support product safety and compliance activities (UL, CE, RoHS, UN38.3 for battery, etc.)
• Work with the reliability team on stress screening and life testing, and bring line failure data to that team
About the team
Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful.
At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.
