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• Build and maintain robust lab management systems for all equipment, measurement systems, maintenance, and calibration. 
• Drive continuous improvement through team participation, project reviews, and result analysis.Support new product design and quality assurance teams through test development, data analysis, and competitor benchmarking.
• Use robust statistical methods to interpret performance data and make formal recommendations to product teams.
• Operate a variety of cooking appliances in representative conditions and design highly detailed appliance and thermal tests with project teams.
• Conduct diverse and complex mechanical and electrical tests to ensure product conformance to internal specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously review and interpret tool sensor data to ensure the accuracy of testing.
• Provide updates to management and project teams as required, and prepare thorough, timely, accurate technical reports on tests performed using word processing, database, spreadsheet, and statistical/graphical software.

• +3–5 years of experience with test equipment, procedures, and mechanical/electrical principles.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (electrical, mechanical, or similar).
• Working knowledge of test concepts in the design and development of products and components.
• Strong problem-solving instincts and the discipline to design experiments that actually answer the question.
• Excellent communication skills. You can explain results and tradeoffs clearly to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

• Six Sigma knowledge and/or certification.
• Basic understanding of thermal, electrical, and mechanical engineering.
• Electrical fabrication: soldering, wiring, building custom instruments.
• Data analysis and visualization using spreadsheet tools, Python, R, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted tools for data analysis, reporting, or test scaffolding, and a point of view on where they help in a lab context.
• Experience working in a connected consumer product or food-tech company.

• Outcome-Oriented: You judge the quality program by what customers experience, not by how many documents you produced. You care about the right metrics and aren’t shy about changing them when they stop being useful.
• Cross-Functional Leader: You lead through influence as much as authority. Engineering, ops, CX, and manufacturing partners trust you because you’re fair, technical, and direct.
• Hands-On: You’re comfortable on a production line, in a teardown lab, and in a spreadsheet. You don’t outsource your understanding of the product.
• Startup Mindset: You’re comfortable in an environment where priorities evolve and where your work has a direct, visible impact on customers’ kitchens. You can build a process where it’s missing without over-building.
• Curious and Adaptive: You stay current on quality practices and tooling, and you have a point of view on where AI and automation belong in a modern hardware quality program.

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