Sr. Quality Engineer - Design for Quality

Job Description Job Title:

Sr. Quality Engineer - Design for

Quality Req ID:

49444 Job Location (Short):

Tallahassee, FL, USA Employment Type:

Full Time Segment:

Danfoss Climate Solutions Segment Job Category:

Quality and Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)

Work Location Type:

On-site The Impact You'll Make At Danfoss, you'll help shape the quality and reliability of innovative, oil-free centrifugal technologies powering critical industries like data centers and heat pumps. This is a high-impact role where your work directly influences product performance, customer satisfaction, and long-term business success. As a Senior Quality Engineer - Design for Quality (DfQ), you will embed quality into every stage of product development—from concept to release. You'll connect real-world performance insights with engineering decisions, ensuring products not only meet expectations but exceed them. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful change by strengthening how teams solve problems, learn from failures, and build better products together. We'd love to have you onsite in Tallahassee, Florida, but we also understand flexibility matters—so for the right candidate, remote work can be considered. What You'll Be Doing Build a closed-loop quality system that turns field issues, customer feedback, and failures into stronger product requirements, design improvements, and release decisions Lead and elevate 8D problem-solving practices, driving root cause validation, robust corrective actions, and continuous improvement across teams Partner with engineering teams to ensure quality and reliability are designed in, identifying risks early and strengthening validation strategies Guide product release readiness, ensuring decisions are supported by clear risk assessments, completed testing, and actionable mitigation plans Translate voice of customer (VOC), warranty data, and field performance into insights that improve design standards and future product outcomes What We're Looking For Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field. Master's degree preferred. 8+ years of experience in quality, reliability, or product engineering, including Design for Quality (DfQ), DFMEA, and validation planning Proven expertise in 8D problem solving, root cause analysis, and working with field/warranty data (e.g., Excel, Minitab, Power BI). Six Sigma Black Belt certification Preferred. Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive outcomes without direct authority Strong understanding of product development and design processes, with a focus on preventing quality issues early. What You'll Get from Us We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities. You'll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us. We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are. You'll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they're worth asking about—we think they're pretty great. Ready to Make a Difference? If this role excites you, we'd love to hear from you! to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category. Information at a Glance Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification. Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities. Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.000 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories. Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification. Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities. Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.