APQP Program Quality Engineer (Battery, Product & Integration)

Role: APQP Program Quality Engineer (Battery, Product & Integration) Department: New Product Development Location: Bengaluru, India Experience: 5+ Years Your Team: You'll be working with New Product Development — a group that runs on coffee and an infectious passion for building products that have never been built before. Our Flexible Energy Stack consists of the e^pack (battery pack) and e^pump (charging station), which unlock 15-minute rapid charging. Our philosophy: Break. Believe. Build. Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule. Believe in the team, the process, and through failures. Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify. Own it like you mean it. What you’ll own: We are seeking an APQP Program Quality Engineer to drive APQP discipline through our battery, product, and integration programs — ensuring every design and process quality step is genuinely validated, participating directly in RCA during builds, and collaborating on service Fault Tree Analysis documentation. The ideal candidate is process-strong, comfortable driving a program rather than just auditing it, and wants to be in the room for RCA and builds rather than reviewing reports after the fact. What you’ll do: APQP Process Ownership Own and track APQP gate readiness across battery, product, and integration programs (POC through SOP+) Ensure DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, and DVP steps are genuinely validated, not just filed, before gate sign-off Flag skipped or shallow validation to the Function Lead before it compounds into a later-stage problem Program Quality Driving Sit embedded inside the battery, product, and integration program team as the process quality anchor Track quality action items across the program timeline and drive them to closure Coordinate quality checkpoints across design, process, and integration workstreams RCA & Build Participation Participate directly in RCA during builds — proto, pilot, and production Apply structured RCA methodology (8D, 5-Why) alongside the Design Quality, Process Quality, and Product Integration Engineers Track RCA and CAPA closure as part of overall program quality health Service FTA Collaboration Build and review Fault Tree Analysis documents for service diagnosis, jointly with the Design Quality and Product Integration Engineers Ensure FTA coverage maps to failure modes surfaced through DFMEA/PFMEA and field RCA Keep FTA documentation living — updated as new failure modes are learned in the field Compliance & Reporting Ensure DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, and checksheets meet IATF 16949 documentation standards Give program-level quality status to the Function Lead and NPQ Lead What you’ll bring: Education qualification B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, or related engineering field 1-3 years of experience in APQP or program quality engineering Strong process discipline — comfortable driving a program's quality cadence, not just documenting it