Quality Engineer, Manufacturing
General Matter · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $110k–$160k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at General Matter (industrial) in Los Angeles, CA. Develop quality procedures, work instructions, inspection plans, and control plans.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, Control plans, GD&T, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Supplier quality
- Base pay
- $110k–$160k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$149k. This one lists $110k–$160k.
Median of the low and high ends of 89 live postings that list pay, out of 189 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 188 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 9% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $100k–$148k, from 86 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 77%
- FMEA 54%
- ✓ Supplier quality 49%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 46%
- AS9100 43%
- ISO 9001 39%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for SolidWorks, CATIA / NX, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
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This plant: General Matter in Los Angeles
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Full description from General MatterAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Develop quality procedures, work instructions, inspection plans, and control plans.
- ◆Support the development and maintenance of the company's quality management system.
- ◆Review engineering drawings and define inspection requirements.
- ◆Evaluate, select, and implement inspection equipment, measurement tools, fixtures, and automated inspection methods.
- ◆Lead first article inspections, process validation activities, and quality planning for new products.
- ◆Analyze process performance and recommend improvements to reduce variation and defects.
- ◆Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective actions.
- ◆Support material review board activities and drive reduction of scrap, rework, and nonconforming material.
- ◆Issue and track supplier corrective actions and participate in supplier audits.
- ◆Work cross-functionally with manufacturing and engineering teams to improve product quality and process controls.
- ◆Develop and maintain quality metrics and communicate quality trends to leadership.
- ◆Train inspectors and production personnel on quality standards and inspection methods.
- ◆Support customer audits, source inspections, and resolution of quality concerns.
Basic
Qualifications
- ✓Evidence of exceptional ability (prior projects, portfolio of work, completed products, etc).
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
- ✓5+ years of professional experience in manufacturing, development, or production engineering.
- ✓Proficient in a 3D CAD package (such as Solidworks, CATIA, NX, etc.) and the ability to make manufacturing drawings using GD&T.
- ✓Hands-on experience building hardware.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, or a related technical field preferred.
- ✓Three or more years of experience in manufacturing quality engineering.
- ✓Experience with quality planning, process validation, root cause analysis, statistical methods, and continuous improvement.
- ✓Ability to read engineering drawings and understand geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
- ✓Experience with inspection equipment, metrology tools, and measurement systems.
- ✓Supplier quality and audit experience preferred.
- ✓Familiarity with quality management systems and industry standards preferred.
- ✓Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- ✓Experience using PC-DMIS and Verisurf
Additional
Requirements
- ✓Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
qualifications
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About the Company
General Matter enriches uranium.
We are designing, building, and operating the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services, here in the US.
In the process, we are restoring America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel to power AI, advanced manufacturing and critical industries our country relies on to remain competitive.
Fuel drives the cost of advanced reactor electricity production, and enrichment drives the cost of the fuel that advanced reactors consume. Reliable, low-cost enrichment is the catalyst for the nuclear Renaissance now under way.
Our mission is to make nuclear not only the cleanest and safest source of baseload power, but also the most affordable. We believe abundant nuclear energy will lead to a post-scarcity society.
We were incubated inside Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by over a dozen of the world's top venture capital firms.
Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.
We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency.
Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable.
About This Role
We are seeking a hands-on Quality Engineer to help build and scale our quality program from the ground up. This role will partner closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and operations to establish quality standards, inspection methods, and processes that support production growth and continuous improvement.
The Quality Engineer will play a key role in developing the quality management system, improving process capability, supporting supplier quality, and selecting inspection equipment needed for both development and production operations