Product Quality Manager
Apptronik · Austin, TX
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Apptronik (industrial) in Austin, TX. In this role you will oversee the Quality Team and drive the documentation of issues encountered during builds as well as during system level development testing, engaging with the HW design, OPS, and SW teams to attain resolution.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- SPC, PPAP, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Robotics, Tooling
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $90k–$121k.
Median of the low and high ends of 20 live postings that list pay, out of 84 quality engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 83 other live quality postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 3+)
Typical $90k–$120k, from 19 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 69%
- ✓ New product launch 38%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 37%
- Lean 36%
- FMEA 33%
- Six Sigma 30%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Robotics, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Apptronik
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- 3
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
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This plant: Apptronik in Austin
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Full description from ApptronikAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job summary
We are looking for a PQM (Product Quality Manager) with experience in highly complex technical projects. The PQM function at Apptronik drives high product quality standards by documenting issues & driving cross functional teams for corrective action. In this role you will oversee the Quality Team and drive the documentation of issues encountered during builds as well as during system level development testing, engaging with the HW design, OPS, and SW teams to attain resolution. As our products mature from internally built prototypes to mass production, you will also oversee defining product quality plans at contract manufacturers and auditing adherence.
or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- ◆Ability to lead and direct Quality team members (IQC, IPQC and Quality Engineers)
- ◆Self motivated & proactive, demonstrating creative and critical thinking capabilities
- ◆Champion of the bug/issue resolution process, documenting bugs, aligning stakeholders and driving corrective action (RC/CA)
- ◆Consolidate issues into dashboards and other visual tools to drive team action & update leadership on top issues
- ◆Develop Product quality plans and assess CM adherence
- ◆Audit CM team PPAP for component validation
- ◆Monitor factory yields/issues on production assembly & RMA lines
- ◆Establish Outgoing Quality Control procedures and Customer Audit Processes
- ◆Up to 20% Travel Internationally
Requirements
- ✓Strong understanding of mechanical & electrical engineering fundamentals & manufacturing processes
- ✓Experience with hardware test & manufacturing fixture development
- ✓Expert in statistical analysis tools (GR&R, SPC, Cpk, 5WHY, Fishbone …)
- ✓Experience with data analysis, able to drive improvements to data capturing & manipulate into useful dashboards/charts
- ✓Experience supporting new product launches from a manufacturing or product development perspective
- ✓Experience managing a team and providing coaching/feedback to employees
- ✓Excellent written and oral communication in highly technical applications
- ✓Excellent interpersonal and team management skills
- ✓Detailed knowledge of product development process and life cycles
- ✓Excellent knowledge of business software tools (Microsoft office suite, JIRA, G-Suite, Dropbox, etc.)
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- ✓BS in Mechanical Engineering (or similar)
- ✓5+ years experience in Quality, Process, or similar engineering role
Requirements
- ✓Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- ✓Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- ✓Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
- ✓Hearing and speech to communicate
- ✓This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.
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Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.
We operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.
Nice to have
- +5+ years experience with contract manufacturing at international sites
- +5+ years experience with high volume manufacturing
- +Experience with PPAP
- +Bilingual – English/Spanish