
Quality Engineer III
Motorola Solutions · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $94k–$104k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 6+ years
- Certification
- Green Belt preferred
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 4 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Motorola Solutions (industrial) in Los Angeles, CA. Plan, conduct, and lead internal audits, ensuring readiness for external ISO 9001/AS9100 and customer audits.
- They ask for
- 6+ years · degree required · Green Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Green Belt, Root cause, FMEA, CAPA
- Base pay
- $94k–$104k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$148k. This one lists $94k–$104k.
Median of the low and high ends of 100 live postings that list pay, out of 201 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 200 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 19% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (6+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$145k, from 97 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 78%
- ✓ FMEA 54%
- ✓ Supplier quality 48%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 46%
- ✓ AS9100 42%
- ✓ ISO 9001 38%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Motorola Solutions in Los Angeles
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- Quality Engineer II · Quality
- Junior Process Engineer · Process
- Electronics Quality Technician III (Morning Shift) · Quality · Technician
- Electronics Quality Technician II (Morning Shift) · Quality · Technician
- Electronics Quality Technician I (Overnight Shift) · Quality · Technician
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responsibilities
at any time at its discretion.
Responsibilities
- ◆Lead complex root cause investigations, CAPA activities, and systemic corrective action implementation across departments and suppliers.
- ◆Own the calibration and test equipment program, ensuring compliance with ISO/AS9100
requirements
and driving efficiency in equipment utilization.
- ✓Serve as site ESD Control Program Authority, maintaining standards, conducting training, and leading compliance audits.
- ✓Plan, conduct, and lead internal audits, ensuring readiness for external ISO 9001/AS9100 and customer audits.
- ✓Collaborate with engineering to establish reliability requirements, qualification plans, and accelerated life testing strategies.
- ✓Drive supplier quality management including supplier audits, SCAR issuance and closure, and supplier performance scorecards.
- ✓Author, review, and maintain quality management system documentation, including procedures, work instructions, and quality plans.
- ✓Develop and report quality metrics for leadership, identifying key risks and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- ✓Mentor and coach Quality Engineers I & II and inspection staff, providing technical guidance and fostering career development.
- ✓Represent the Quality organization in customer meetings, audits, and technical discussions as a subject matter expert.
- ✓Champion continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, and FMEA.
- ✓Perform other related duties of which the above are representative.
Required qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline.
- ✓6+ years of progressively responsible experience in quality engineering or related engineering discipline.
- ✓Proven leadership in calibration program management, ESD compliance, and internal audit execution.
- ✓Experience with supplier quality, SCAR management, and supplier audits.
- ✓Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 and AS9100 standards.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without authority.
- ✓Strong data-driven decision-making skills, with experience in advanced statistical analysis and risk management tools.
- ✓Expert-level knowledge of quality system documentation and regulatory compliance.
- ✓Highly effective communication and leadership skills, capable of engaging with executives, customers, and suppliers.
- ✓Ability to balance strategic initiatives with hands-on problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.
- ✓Security Clearance: Active U.S. Government SECRET clearance or the ability to obtain one within 15 months of hire.
- ✓Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen, or U.S. Permanent Resident) due to clients under U.S. federal contracts.
- ✓All employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check and drug test.
Requirements
- ✓Office environment.
- ✓Occasional exposure to heat, cold, and allergens while performing tests or demonstrations in the field.
- ✓While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to do the following:
- ✓Lift equipment up to 10 lbs. for the set-up of demonstrations and testing.
- ✓Perform bending and reaching movements to place items on lower and higher shelves.
- ✓Walking/Moving in the labs.
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Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview
Silvus Technologies, a leading provider of advanced MANET and MIMO communications systems, is reshaping mesh network technology for mission-critical applications – on the ground, in the air and at sea. Its battle-proven StreamCaster family of MANET radios and proprietary MN-MIMO waveform provides the vital communications link for defense, law enforcement and public safety agencies around the world, and in the toughest operational environments.
Silvus Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Job Description
Would you like to join an incredibly talented group of people, doing very challenging work, with the prime directive of “ Keeping Our Heroes Connected ”?
The opportunity
Silvus is seeking a Quality Engineer III who will report to the Director of Quality on the Quality team. The successful individual in this role will serve as a high-level quality engineering professional, driving strategic quality initiatives across product development, production, and supplier networks. This role serves as a subject matter expert in quality systems, audits, and compliance, with accountability for calibration oversight, ESD program management, and supplier quality performance. The Quality Engineer III provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers, and partners with leadership to embed quality into all phases of the product lifecycle.
This position is 100% onsite, Monday through Friday, at Silvus Technologies’ headquarters in the heart of vibrant West Los Angeles, CA .
The following is a list of at least some of the current essential job functions of the position. Management may assign or reassign duties and
Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities
- +Six Sigma Green Belt or higher certification.
- +Experience with defense, aerospace, or high-reliability electronics.
- +Customer-facing experience in audit or quality review settings.
- +IPC Certification.
