Inside the Role
Inside the Role

As a Quality Engineer, you will safeguard the safety, reliability, and regulatory integrity of our Daimler Truck vehicles portfolio by leading early phase design risk and requirements processes. Through high quality DFMEAs, robust component and system specifications, and Designation Safety Relevant (DS) analysis, you will help engineering teams identify hazards, eliminate failure modes (including single point failures), prevent late design changes, and enable clear, manufacturable, and testable designs that perform reliably throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

Your domain will focus on Chassis Structure Systems, which includes frames, fifth wheels, chassis components (mudflaps, steps, fairing mountings, covers), tanks (hydraulic, fuel, def, air/fitting CNG), LV-HV (battery boxes), and routings.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering rigor, systems thinking, and leadership influence-ideal for someone motivated by preventing failures that truly matter.

Posting Information

We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.

Position offers a starting salary range of 86,000 to $110,000USD

Pay offered dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience

Benefits include 401k company contribution with company match up to 8% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age; starting at 4 weeks paid vacation; 13+ calendar holidays; 8 weeks paid parental leave; employee assistance program; comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs; onsite fitness (at some locations); tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off; short-term and long-term disability plans.

What You Drive at DTNA

Safety & Design Risk Leadership

• Lead DFMEA, Component Specification, and Designation Safety-Relevant (DS) processes to drive early risk visibility, strengthen requirements clarity, and reduce downstream design changes while preventing safety-critical failures.
• Act as a risk authority and facilitator, guiding engineering teams to identify, assess, and reduce design risks prior to release.
• Ensure DFMEA findings are translated into clear actions, requirements, and traceable mitigations.

Risk Analysis & Specifications Excellence

• Moderate DFMEAs with system owners, component engineers, and test engineers, ensuring high technical rigor and constructive challenge.
• Assign, track, and verify closure of DFMEA actions before final design release.
• Lead DFMEA audits of supplier components, as required.
• Author and review quality-related specification content for systems and components.
• Lead Designation Safety-Relevant (DS) analysis in collaboration with design engineering, operations quality, manufacturing, and service teams to ensure assembly single-point failures with potential safety risk to road users are identified and mitigated through design improvements or manufacturing controls using safety-critical Special Characteristics.
• Ensure Special Characteristics are properly specified on installation diagrams and support flow-down of Special Characteristics to PFMEAs, control plans, and supplier documentation.

Program & Stakeholder Leadership

• Represent Engineering Quality in project governance forums and core team visual management meetings.
• Ensure all EQ deliverables are completed on time, at high quality, and escalated appropriately when risks emerge.
• Track and communicate engineering quality KPIs, open risks, and systemic issues-acting as a quality voice within Engineering.

Knowledge You Should Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronic, or Systems Engineering (or equivalent) and 2-4 years of relevant experience in product development, engineering quality, systems engineering, or design assurance within automotive, aerospace, or similar regulated industries, is required.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with demonstrated experience in design risk management for complex mechanical or mechatronic systems.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and challenge design decisions constructively.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills across functions and levels.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple development activities in parallel.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and change within large, matrixed organizations.
• Ability to work on-site at DTNA Portland.
• An attached resume is required.

Exceptional Candidates Might Have

• Practical experience leading or moderating DFMEAs and driving risk reduction actions to closure.
• Experience with safety-critical systems, hazard analysis, or single-point failure prevention.
• Experience working with component or system specifications (CRS / CIS or equivalent).
• Experience applying DFMEA software tools (e.g., IQ-FMEA RM Pro, XFMEA, Pro FMEA, etc.) to structure risk analysis, manage actions, and support design decisions.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS NG, ELM, JAMA, etc.)
• Experience with global or distributed engineering teams.
• ASQ certification or similar quality credentials.
• Experience with Problem Solving tools (e.g., Shainin, Six Sigma, etc.)
• Exposure to change management concepts (e.g., ADKAR).
• Familiarity with low level automation tools (e.g. Regrello, Power Automate, EWM, etc.)
• Interest or experience applying data analytics or AI to quality, risk, or process improvement.

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Where We Work

This position is open to applicants who can work in (or relocate to) the following location(s)-
Portland, OR US. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Schedule Type:
Hybrid (4 days per week in-office / 1 day remote). This schedule builds our #OneTeamBestTeam culture, provides an unparalleled customer experience, and creates innovative solutions through in-person collaboration.