Principal Supplier Quality Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇳 China – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Halter

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

🌾 Agriculture

💰 $98.6M Series D - Halter on 2025-06

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Agriculture

Halter is an agritech company that provides solar-powered wearable collars, a connectivity tower, and a mobile app to enable virtual fencing, remote herd movement, real-time location, health and heat monitoring, and precision pasture management for dairy and beef farmers. The system helps farmers reduce labor, improve mating and animal welfare, and optimize pasture and feed allocation, and operates in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.

📋 Description

• Lead technically rigorous audits of component suppliers across Asia • Assess supplier process control, measurement capability, and production and inspection reliability • Identify quality-performance drivers and develop prioritised audit findings • Conduct pre-qualification audits for new suppliers • Run surveillance audits and verify corrective-action effectiveness • Develop and improve Halter’s audit methodology and supplier assessment criteria • Own resolution of complex supplier quality issues using first-principles analysis • Lead rapid on-site analysis of production failures and OQC rejections • Assess risks to in-flight inventory and define paths to resolution • Improve supplier process controls, measurement systems, and inspection methods • Coach supplier engineering teams in root-cause analysis and corrective action • Escalate delayed resolutions, poor supplier engagement, and emerging production risks • Implement and maintain quality assurance specifications at suppliers • Refine QA specifications with hardware design and supplier quality leadership • Communicate, implement, and revalidate updated specifications as designs evolve • Challenge unclear, unmeasurable, or unrealistic specifications • Support supplier-side part approval and formal component validation • Track approval status, corrective actions, open quality issues, and supply-continuity risks • Collaborate on supplier OQC failures detected during contract-manufacturer IQC • Build relationships with supplier quality and engineering counterparts • Develop structured improvement plans for systemic supplier capability gaps • Share Halter standards and technical knowledge to build supplier capability • Report to the Head of Supplier Quality and work with hardware design and operations teams

🎯 Requirements

• 15 or more years of experience in supplier quality or manufacturing quality for complex electromechanical hardware • Proven track record of solving technically difficult quality problems at suppliers • Deep manufacturing and process engineering knowledge • Understanding of part manufacturing, process variation, and process control • Exceptional technical audit capability • Strong first-principles thinking and root-cause analysis • Experience with QA specification development • Ability to assess whether specifications are clear, measurable, and correctly implemented • High proficiency in English and Mandarin, written, verbal, and reading • Ability to work directly with Chinese engineers and leadership without translation • Ability to operate autonomously across a portfolio of suppliers • Willingness to travel regularly across APAC; significant time on-site at suppliers • Master's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• $1,000 personal growth fund • Autonomy, mastery, and learning opportunities • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Meaningful work improving farmers’ livelihoods and sustainable operations • Global team collaboration and challenging, high-impact work