APQP Program Quality Engineer

Description

Role: APQP Program Quality Engineer (Charger)

Department: New Product Development     Location: Bengaluru, India     Experience: 5+ Years

Your Team: 

You'll be working with New Product Development — a group that runs on coffee and an infectious passion for building products that have never been built before. Our Flexible Energy Stack consists of the e^pack (battery pack) and e^pump (charging station), which unlock 15-minute rapid charging.

Our philosophy: 

Break. Believe. Build.  

Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule. 

Believe in the team, the process, and through failures. 

Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify.

Own it like you mean it.

What you’ll own:

We are seeking an APQP Program Quality Engineer to drive APQP discipline through our charger programs — ensuring every design and process quality step is genuinely validated, participating directly in RCA during builds, and collaborating on service Fault Tree Analysis documentation.

The ideal candidate is process-strong, comfortable driving a program rather than just auditing it, and wants to be in the room for RCA and builds rather than reviewing reports after the fact.

What you’ll do:

APQP Process Ownership

• Own and track APQP gate readiness across charger programs (POC through SOP+)
• Ensure DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, and DVP steps are genuinely validated, not just filed, before gate sign-off
• Flag skipped or shallow validation to the Function Lead before it compounds into a later-stage problem

Program Quality Driving

• Sit embedded inside the charger program team as the process quality anchor
• Track quality action items across the program timeline and drive them to closure
• Coordinate quality checkpoints across design and process quality workstreams

RCA & Build Participation

• Participate directly in RCA during builds — proto, pilot, and production
• Apply structured RCA methodology (8D, 5-Why) alongside the Design and Process Quality Engineers
• Track RCA and CAPA closure as part of overall program quality health

Service FTA Collaboration

• Build and review Fault Tree Analysis documents for service diagnosis, jointly with the Design and Process Quality Engineers
• Ensure FTA coverage maps to failure modes surfaced through DFMEA/PFMEA and field RCA
• Keep FTA documentation living — updated as new failure modes are learned in the field

Compliance & Reporting

• Ensure DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, and checksheets meet IATF 16949 documentation standards
• Give program-level quality status to the Function Lead and NPQ Lead

What you’ll bring:

• Education qualification
• B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, or related engineering field
• 1-3 years of experience in APQP or program quality engineering
• Strong process discipline — comfortable driving a program's quality cadence, not just documenting it
• Working knowledge of DFMEA, PFMEA, and IATF 16949 documentation requirements
• Comfortable participating hands-on in RCA during builds

Preferred Experience (Good to Have):

• Prior experience in charger or power electronics product programs
• Exposure to Fault Tree Analysis authorship or review
• Familiarity with 8D / 5-Why RCA methodology

What matters to us:

• Quality of work
• Structured problem-solving
• Dissatisfaction with mediocre work
• Ability to multi-task and handle a dynamic working environment
• Resilient attitude to bounce back after failing

About Us:

Exponent is building the energy stack powering commercial EVs in India. Our proprietary battery and charging technology enables safe, reliable 15-minute rapid charging while delivering a 3,000-cycle battery life warranty using standard lithium-ion cells. Today, our platform powers high-utilisation commercial vehicles - from three-wheelers to intercity buses, making electric mobility rapid, more reliable and more affordable than petroleum.

Founded by Arun Vinayak (Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer, Ather Energy), Exponent is a 250+ member team of passionate builders solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in energy.

If solving hard engineering problems across mechanics, thermal systems, power electronics, manufacturing, and the charging network, while staying obsessed with customer experience excites you, we'd love to build with you.