Hardware Quality Engineer
Latch
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See open jobs at Latch.See open jobs similar to "Hardware Quality Engineer" Alpaca.Latch was founded in NYC a decade ago with a vision to create unparalleled experience for residents through hardware and software. Now after 100+ million unlocks, we're continuing that vision to transform how people interact act with spaces everywhere.
Our mission is to unified access to spaces, services, and experiences that redefine the way we live, work, and connect. We do this by combining software, products, and services into a holistic platform that makes spaces more efficient, enjoyable, and profitable.
Recently, we've acquired Honest Day’s Work, propelling us toward a seamless residential ecosystem. Think empowered building owners, operators, and residents with secure access.
Led by CEO Jamie Siminoff's visionary expertise, we're shaping the future of spaces.
About the Role
As a Hardware Quality Engineer at Latch, you will play a key role in upholding the integrity and reliability of our hardware products. In this role, you’ll lead quality initiatives, conduct comprehensive failure analyses, and design and execute testing procedures aimed at continuous improvement of our products. We’re looking for someone with a maker mentality and a diverse skill set that encompasses everything from data collection and statistical analysis to rapid prototyping to build test fixtures. Your work will be instrumental in shaping the quality and performance of Latch’s products, significantly contributing to our reputation for excellence and reliability in the market.
Responsibilities:
- Lead cross-functional quality initiatives
- Perform comprehensive root cause analysis on product failures
- Design, monitor, and report results of engineering evaluation tests
- Identify high-risk failure modes in engineering development
- Ownership of product reliability testing
- Ensure products adhere to quality standards and regulatory requirements
- Proactively engage with customers to incorporate field feedback into quality enhancement initiatives
- Ownership of product failure data collection, reporting, and analysis.
Position Requirements: (it's okay if you don't meet a few of these)
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
- Robust analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of working collaboratively in a dynamic environment
- Hands-on experience in a hardware lab environment including basic soldering and board modification
- Experience designing and conducting environmental product testing (temperature, humidity, vibration, shock tests, etc)
- Familiarity with embedded systems and electrical design
- Understanding of standard communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, RS232)
- Ability to follow and create procedures for Failure Analysis
- Knowledge of working with large datasets in SQL is a plus
- Position may require occasional travel (<5%) to support testing and reliability functions.
General requirements:
- English and Spanish proficiency are a must. Being a remote team we favor asynchronous written communication; it's important you can communicate your ideas clearly as you will be interacting with other non-native English-speaking coworkers.
- Work from anywhere, with at least 4 hours overlap with Eastern Time (UTC-4)
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly; there will be many uncertainties and questions that will come up and part of your job will be to do the research, present options, and execute.
Interview Process:
We want to find if you are a good match, but just as important, throughout the process we want you to find if we are a good match for you
Steps:
- An introductory call with our Recruiter: learn more about the project and tell us about your past experience and what you are looking for in your next role.
- Team Interview with different team members. This is a great moment to ask specific questions about this opportunity!
- Technical Interview
- Manager Interview
- Reference check
- Offer
Joining us means:
- Having teammates all over the world in the US, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Uruguay, Portugal, and Spain.
- Collaborating in a fast-paced environment where you can apply what you have learned in new challenges, and, more importantly, grow your career.
- Being encouraged to invent and innovate within your role and working in a company where calculated risk-taking is highly encouraged and thinking outside the box is a must.
We embrace diversity and strive to create an inclusive and equitable environment for all.
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- Communications from Latch or Door will always come from @latch.com or @door.com. Do not accept a job interview invitation with Latch or Door from anyone who does not contact you through an email that comes from @latch.com or @door.com.
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