As a Senior Design Quality Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority on complex systems, designs, and quality engineering decision-making. Reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Quality (based at our Shanghai office), you will act as the primary hands-on bridge between Product Development (NPD) and mass production. Your mission is to embed a "Design for Quality" mentality early in the product lifecycle, ensuring it isn't just a phrase, but a verified, repeatable reality before high-volume manufacturing begins. You will act as the upstream gatekeeper, ensuring designs are mature and fully validated before handoff to our China-based quality team who manage ongoing mass production.
You will work as part of the product development teams on complex tasks and longer-term projects, taking ownership of timelines and driving successful outcomes without the need for continual guidance.
This is an on-site role, working a minimum of 4 days per week from our office in Broxburn, Scotland. The role also requires the ability to travel to China and other SE Asia countries approximately 4-6 times a year.
What you’ll do:
- Early-Stage Design Partnership: Actively partner with Product Design Engineers from the initial project kick-off to embed "Design for Quality" principles early in the R&D lifecycle. You will ensure that quality, reliability, and manufacturing constraints are inherently built into the product design long before the design freeze for mass production.
- Risk Management & Mitigation (DFMEA): Serve as the technical authority on risk-assessment methodologies. You will lead and facilitate Design Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (DFMEAs) alongside the design team, proactively identifying potential failure modes, establishing critical-to-quality (CTQ) characteristics, and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Strategy & Forward Planning: Think 6–12 months ahead to align design-quality milestones with project goals. Proactively shape the product’s design by contributing technical insights, test observations, and engineering feedback gained from early prototype evaluations.
- NPD Project Leadership: Lead the quality engineering strands of complex, cross-functional New Product Development (NPD) projects. Take full ownership of qualification metrics to drive successful product launches.
- Cross-Functional Integration & Peer Alignment: Maintain close, collaborative relationships with compliance, engineering, sourcing, CPI and supply chain peers. Articulate how design tolerances overlap with supplier capabilities, ensuring a smooth handoff from prototype verification to factory floor execution.
- Process Governance & Validation Standards: Own and define the product quality criteria in our Quality Control (QC) documentation. Set rigorous standards for design verification testing (DVT) and production validation testing (PVT). Consistently deliver high-quality results, ensuring new appliance designs comply with Ooni’s internal standards, global regulatory benchmarks, and industry compliance.
- Data-Driven Engineering Decisions: Fairly assess complex testing inputs, tolerance stack-ups, and statistical data to make rational, well-informed design-quality decisions. Rationalize engineering trade-offs using ROI calculations. For highly complex issues where prototype data may be incomplete or unreliable, proactively collaborate with senior team members for support.
- Advanced Problem Solving: Adapt quickly to unexpected prototype failures or unfamiliar technical challenges. Champion root-cause analysis frameworks (such as 8D or Six Sigma) to solve complex issues, pushing beyond standard best practices to help design novel, robust solutions and product features.
- Stakeholder Communication: Tailor complex technical data and validation results into clear, concise updates for cross-functional stakeholders. Appropriately summarize lengthy testing reports and confidently present design-readiness findings to the wider department or business.
What we’re looking for:
- Technical Expertise: Significant experience in quality engineering, design verification, or regulatory compliance specifically for consumer appliances, gas, or electrical products.
- Project Ownership: Proven experience working independently to drive complex technical projects to successful outcomes within a fast-paced consumer goods environment.
- Problem Solving Mastery: Mastery of Quality and Design Tools (e.g., DFMEA/PFMEA, 8D, Six Sigma, Lean, or Design of Experiments) with a strong "system-thinking" approach.
- Communication & Inclusivity: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to account for different personalities and levels of experience, communicating in a way that is inclusive, persuasive, and effective.
- Operational Agility: Demonstrated ability to manage day-to-day prototyping and manufacturing quality issues while simultaneously planning 6–12 months down the line.
Why Ooni?
When you join one of our global teams, you’re joining a dedicated group of do-ers who value Kindness, Passion, Innovation, Ambition and Rigor above all else. We live, work and play by these values and are proud of what we’ve built here. As a member of our team, you will also receive the following:
- Work for an employer that cares about your well-being! We’ve got private healthcare through Bupa as well as access to on-demand coaching and therapy sessions via BetterHelp
- £500 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni products.
- £500 every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be.
- 35 days of paid time off per year, plus an additional 5 week sabbatical when you’ve been here for 5 years.
- Access to an employee assistance programme which includes on demand coaching.
- We believe in giving back to our communities, which is why we offer every team member five paid volunteer days each year to support causes they care about.
- Pizza is at the heart of everything we do, you’ll have access to our ovens in every office — and we’ll teach you to make pizza like a pro as part of your onboarding experience.
Having a fantastic culture is really important to all of us at Ooni. We work hard to make it diverse and inclusive, and want everyone to have access to the same opportunities. If you would like this advert in a different format or need an alternative method of applying, please let us know. You can email us at
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