Quality Engineer

Exowatt is revolutionizing the energy landscape for the AI era with our groundbreaking P3 system that captures solar energy, stores it as heat, and generates electricity on demand. Founded in 2023 and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Felicis, we're committed to providing clean, modular, and scalable power that meets the rapidly growing demands of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free, enabling technological advancement while protecting our planet.

We're hiring a Quality Engineer to own the quality of our supply chain and manufacturing operations. You'll qualify suppliers, drive root-cause investigations, and build the quality systems that let us scale from pilot builds to volume production. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone equally at home on a factory floor, at a supplier site, and deep in inspection and yield data.

This role is based in our Austin, TX facility. Relocation is required, and relocation assistance will be provided if necessary.

What You'll Do

• Own incoming inspection, in-process, and final quality for assigned commodities, sub-assemblies, and finished product

• Partner with the supply chain team to qualify new suppliers — on-site audits, first-article inspections (FAI), PPAP-style submissions, and process capability reviews

• Develop inspection plans, control plans, and acceptance criteria for purchased parts and in-house manufactured components

• Lead root-cause investigations (8D, 5-Why, Ishikawa) on supplier defects and internal manufacturing non-conformances; drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to closure

• Manage the non-conformance (NCR) and supplier corrective action request (SCAR) processes end-to-end

• Partner with design engineering on DFM/DFA reviews and help translate design intent into manufacturable, inspectable specifications (GD&T, critical-to-quality features)

• Track and report quality metrics — PPM, first-pass yield, cost of poor quality, supplier scorecards — and use them to drive improvement

• Support new product introduction (NPI) from prototype through production ramp, including process validation and pilot builds

• Build and maintain quality documentation: inspection procedures, work instructions, quality records, and calibration programs

• Help stand up and evolve Exowatt's quality management system (QMS) — we're early enough that you'll shape it, not just operate inside it