
Sr Quality Engineer I - Manufacturing
Tandem Diabetes Care · Barnes, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Tandem Diabetes Care (medical devices) in Barnes, CA. Products, planned and completed, and that the results drive quality and quality system actions.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- SPC, MSA / Gage R&R, CAPA, GD&T, Minitab, ISO 13485
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$149k.
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
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $100k–$148k, from 87 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 ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, Cost reduction, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
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This plant: Tandem Diabetes Care in Barnes
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Grow with us
Tandem Diabetes Care creates new possibilities for people living with diabetes, their loved ones, and their healthcare providers through a positively different experience. We’d love for you to team up with us to “innovate every day,” put “people first,” and take the “no-shortcuts” approach that has propelled us to become a leader in the diabetes technology industry.
Stay awesome
Tandem Diabetes Care is proud to manufacture and sell the Tandem Mobi system and t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ+ technology — an advanced predictive algorithm that automates insulin delivery. But we’re so much more than that. Our company’s human-centered approach to design, development, and support delivers innovative products and services for people who use insulin. Because many of our own team members live with diabetes, or have a loved one impacted by diabetes, the work is personal, and we are committed to the cause. Learn more at tandemdiabetes.com
A day in the life
An experienced team member in a manufacturing environment providing quality guidance and support for product launches, sustaining engineering, and quality system activities to assure conformance to established specifications and risk reduction. Works independently to optimize and continuously improve internal operations to meet department, business unit and company objectives. Also provides expertise and guidance to ensure quality systems are in place across the hardware development organization that improves quality of our devices as well as our business operations.
The Senior Quality Engineers at Tandem are also responsible for
- •Serves as a Quality lead on sustaining engineering, production, and quality system activities.
- •Reviews and approves product and process changes/new designs to ensure they are developed, verified,
- •validated and documented in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- •Assures all actions required to optimize the quality, manage the risk, and maintain the compliance of all
- •products, planned and completed, and that the results drive quality and quality system actions.
- •Analyzes and solves quality related problems with products and processes.
- •Provides input to IQ/OQ/PQ development for processes and equipment.
- •Supports the non-conforming material report (NCR) process and lead monitoring and tracking for open
- •NCRs and ensure timely closures.
- •Reviews and approves CO’s as well as provides quality input.
- •Provides quality input to Complaint, First Article, CAPA investigations.
- •Independently completes activities in Risk Analysis, Process Capability Analysis (Cpk),, Design Reviews,
- •Gage R&R, DOEs, V&V Testing, and reliability testing activities.
- •Facilitates or participates in cross-functional or cross-divisional process improvement teams to drive
- •product development quality excellence and cost savings initiatives.
- •Reviews and analyzes project and customer requirements, and assists project teams in tailoring and using
- •company procedures, methods, templates and tools.
- •Collects process metrics and lessons learned, reviews and evaluates processes and work products and
- •recommends improvements as appropriate.
- •Supports and leads, internal and external audits as scheduled to build the quality system and reduce risk.
- •Confirms completion of required training plan before assuming job responsibilities.
- •Ensures work is performed in compliance with company policies including Privacy/HIPAA and other
- •regulatory, legal, and safety requirements.
- •Other
When & where you’ll work
This role is on-site five days a week at our Barnes Canyon office due to the nature of the work involved.
What you’ll need
- •Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, preferably Mechanical Engineering or the equivalent education and applicable work experience.
- •5 plus years experience working as a Quality Engineer in an FDA-regulated hardware development environment, medical device development, or an FDA-regulated industry.
- •Demonstrates proficient knowledge of Quality Engineering policies, principles and best practices.
- •Proficient knowledge of quality standards (ISO 13485, FDA QMSR, ISO 14971).
- •Proficiency with querying, navigating, and analyzing datasets
- •Understands the use of all test and quality measurement equipment.
- •Strong proficiency of statistical techniques including sampling theory, probability, capability analysis, and SPC.
- •Previous experience generating and analyzing quality metrics.
- •Demonstrated experience using problem solving methodologies: why-why analysis, fault tree analysis, cause and effect diagram etc.
- •Ability to work independently to identify potential quality issues and propose solutions.
- •Basic understanding of mechanical drawings & specifications including geometric dimensioning and tolerances (GD&T).
- •Able to recognize non-conformances from accepted and documented practices.
- •Able to assert own ideas and persuade others through effectively consolidating, evaluating, and presenting relevant information.
- •Skilled at promoting team cooperation and a commitment to team success.
- •Adept at seeing change as an opportunity to improve business performance and campaigning for it when necessary.
- •Ability to effectively use MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and MiniTab and other applicable software packages.
Extra awesome
- •Experience in a ISO environment preferred.
