Responsibilities

As a Senior Field Quality Laboratory Engineer, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), you will lead complex technical investigations involving customer-returned parts, failed components, vehicle systems, and field quality concerns. This role reports to a Field Quality Laboratory leadership role and exists to improve Lucid’s ability to identify validated failure mechanisms, reduce investigation cycle time, and prevent recurring quality issues. In your first 12 months, you will own high-impact investigations, strengthen repeatable failure-analysis methods, and help improve the quality of technical evidence used to support corrective action decisions. Success will be measured by clear root cause conclusions, effective corrective action validation, faster investigation turnaround, and stronger cross-functional alignment on issue resolution. A strong candidate will gain direct ownership of failure analysis for customer-impacting vehicle concerns, with access to returned components, diagnostic data, laboratory testing, and engineering decision-making across hardware, software, service, supplier, and manufacturing interfaces.
Root Cause Ownership: Lead technical investigations into customer-reported quality concerns and determine validated failure mechanisms using returned components, vehicle data, service findings, and laboratory test results.
Failure Analysis: Perform component inspections, teardown analysis, dimensional measurements, material evaluations, and functional assessments to identify failure origins and contributing factors.
Validation Testing: Develop and execute structured test plans that reproduce field failures, validate hypotheses, and confirm the effectiveness of corrective actions.
Technical Evidence: Build clear, evidence-based technical cases that combine laboratory findings, engineering data, vehicle diagnostics, manufacturing records, supplier information, and field performance data.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Field Quality, Warranty Engineering, Product Engineering, Reliability, Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Quality, and Service Operations to move investigations from issue identification through validated resolution.
Process Standards: Create repeatable failure-analysis procedures, test methods, technical documentation, and lessons learned that improve investigation quality and consistency across the laboratory.
Escalation Support: Provide technical expertise, investigation findings, and recommended actions for high-priority quality reviews, customer concerns, and emerging issue assessments.
5 years of experience in failure analysis, field quality, warranty engineering, product engineering, reliability engineering, laboratory testing, validation engineering, or a related technical discipline.
BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience leading structured root cause investigations involving mechanical, electrical, electronic, software-integrated, or electromechanical systems.
Hands-on experience performing component inspections, teardown analysis, failure reproduction, and engineering validation testing.

Sr. Field Quality Lab Engineering- RCA at Lucidmotors · LumiJobs

Sr. Field Quality Lab Engineering- RCA

Responsibilities

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Lucidmotors

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