Quality Engineer Intern

QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future.

What we need:

QuantumScape is seeking a motivated Quality Engineer Intern for our Quality Engineering team. You will be playing a vital role in both the electrical testing engineering team and incoming quality control (IQC) engineering team. In electrical testing, you will be ensuring that test equipment is assembled and deployed onto the production floor with a strict qualification & implementation plan. In IQC, you will be ensuring that incoming raw material meets critical to quality specifications, non-compliant parts are identified and appropriately dispositioned by collaborating with internal stakeholders, provide feedback to vendors and track their performance as well as ensure excursions and/or variations are being addressed through 8D process.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Actively enrolled working towards Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and accuracy  
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite specifically Microsoft Excel and the ability to use utilize pivot table to generate useful reports
• Must have highly developed written and verbal cross-functional communication skills 
• Hands-on skills with using tools and equipment to connect electronic components and verify circuit functionality.
• Hands-on skills in Quality Engineering tools, such as Measurement system analysis, Gage R&R, SPC, Process control plan, SOP, traceability system, process capability analysis.
• Take a disciplined approach which relies on the application of statistical methods for experiment planning, data analysis, and process control.

Responsibilities:

• Support in test fixture assembly and soldering.
• Support in reviewing electrical schematics and drawings for troubleshooting and inspection activities.
• Support quality engineering team on developing SOPs related to electrical testing, IQC, Clean Room Standards, etc.
• Support team on performing electrical testing, GR&R studies, clean room compliance audits, manual review, data collection, and data analysis, etc.
• Support in perform Incoming Inspection on raw materials.
• Support quality engineering team in performing process audits and identifying gaps.
• Provide continuous improvement ideas and solutions for process and clean room compliance.
• Support in monitoring SPC chart for baseline processes.
• Monitor supplier performance and report to internal stakeholders.

Compensation & Benefits: Salary range for this role has a hourly pay rate range of $28 - 31/hr.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.