# Supplier Development Engineer

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $186k – $223k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** supplier quality, process audits, capability studies, ppap, first article inspection, Root Cause Analysis, spc, msa, fmea, welding, fabrication, machining, coatings
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Develop and qualify suppliers for AI data center manufacturing through hands-on process audits, PPAP approvals, root cause quality fixes, and capacity building at supplier sites. Requires proven manufacturing supplier development experience with rigorous on-site problem solving.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop supplier capability hands-on: process audits, capability studies, and improvement plans executed at supplier sites.
- Qualify new suppliers and parts: first articles, PPAP-style approvals, and launch support through ramp.
- Attack supplier quality issues at root cause, on their floor, with their team.
- Build supplier capacity ahead of demand: bottlenecks found and fixed before they gate our line.

## Requirements
- Experience in supplier quality or development engineering in manufacturing.
- Audit processes for capability, controls, and culture.
- Fixed a supplier problem at their site (not managed by email).
- Run first articles and PPAP with rigor and speed.
- Improve suppliers without doing their job for them.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Weld and fabrication suppliers.
- Machining and coatings.
- Core tools (SPC, MSA, FMEA).
- Travel-heavy roles.

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