Quality Engineer - Design for Quality

About This Role

This Quality Engineer role focuses on how products perform in the field, ensuring they deliver quality and reliability over time. You will connect field performance, customer feedback, and failure analysis back into engineering decisions, ensuring that quality, reliability, and customer expectations are continuously improved through data-driven insights. Your work will strengthen how teams learn from failures, solve problems, and continuously improve products, driving better outcomes for customers and the business.

Responsibilities

• Build a closed-loop quality system that turns field issues, customer feedback, and failures into stronger product requirements, design improvements, and release decisions
• Lead and elevate 8D problem-solving practices, driving root cause validation, robust corrective actions, and continuous improvement across teams
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure quality and reliability are designed in, identifying risks early and strengthening validation strategies
• Guide product release readiness, ensuring decisions are supported by clear risk assessments, completed testing, and actionable mitigation plans
• Translate voice of customer (VOC), warranty data, and field performance into insights that improve design standards and future product outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor
• Typically 5+ years of experience in quality, reliability, or product engineering, including Design for Quality (DfQ), DFMEA, and validation planning
• Proven expertise in 8D problem solving, root cause analysis, and working with field/warranty data (e.g., Excel, Minitab, Power BI)
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive outcomes without direct authority
• Strong understanding of product development and design processes, with a focus on preventing quality issues early

Nice to have:

• Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification

Benefits

• Internal promotion and support for learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities
• Flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance
• Inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected and valued
• Annual bonus
• Paid vacation
• Pension plans
• Personal insurance

About the Company

At Danfoss, you ll work on oil-free centrifugal technologies powering high-growth applications like data centers and heat pumps.