Quality Assurance Engineer II, Preprint
Velo3D · Fremont, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Velo3D (industrial) in Fremont, CA.
- They ask for
- 3+ years
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
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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.
California plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 188 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
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.
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This plant: Velo3D in Fremont
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Full description from Velo3DAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
responsibilities
will include coordinating and driving our release process and working with our dev ops and software engineering teammates to automate tests that can be automated.
Responsibilities
Design and implement test plans for testing out desktop tools
Work with applications engineers to reproduce and triage bugs
Drive the release process for our desktop tools
Qualifications
- ✓1-3 years of experience
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Position Overview
We develop a suite of tools to prepare, validate and monitor jobs for our 3D printers. These tools present users with a 3D view of the CAD models, allow them to add supports and other markup, show the resulting print instructions and help monitor long running compute processes to prepare the files.
We need a QA Engineer who is able to design tests from the perspective of a 3D printing applications engineer and consistently implement those tests as part of our validation and release processes. Additional
Familiarity with CAD-like desktop apps
Either experience with designing tests for and testing desktop software or experience with 3D printing