- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Manufacturing
- Posted
- Apr 9, 2026
Full-time
Manager, Supplier Engineering
Job description
Manage and lead a team of Supplier Engineers responsible for ensuring supplier manufacturing processes are capable, stable, compliant, and scalable across the product lifecycle. This role plays a critical part in protecting the validated state of medical devices, enabling safe and timely product launches, and driving sustained improvements in supplier quality, capacity, and risk reduction.
The Supplier Engineering Manager leads complex, cross‑functional problem solving at the intersection of supplier manufacturing processes, design constraints, quality systems, and business priorities.
Job requirements
- Promote Design for Manufacturability (DFM) by engaging suppliers and Engineering early in the development cycle to provide actionable feedback on manufacturability improvements prior to production.
- Own and govern supplier component qualification, holding suppliers and internal teams accountable for robust execution of FAIR, test method development and validation, PFMEA / spFMEA, capability studies (Cp/Cpk, GR&R),…
- Proven ability to lead and scale engineering teams to solve increasingly complex technical and manufacturing process problems by applying data‑driven analysis and strong engineering judgment.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, mentoring, and retaining high‑performing engineering talent.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, balancing competing priorities, incomplete data, and cross‑functional tradeoffs to drive timely, high‑quality decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to apply broad supplier manufacturing process knowledge to assess tradeoffs and make risk‑based decisions affecting product quality, cost, capacity, scalability, and supplier performance.
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and GD&T, with sufficient depth to evaluate manufacturability, inspection strategy, and risk, and to guide technical decision‑making
- Proficiency in PFMEA / spFMEA, process validation, root cause investigation, inspection, and test methodologies.