Design Quality Engineer (Charger)

Role: Design Quality Engineer (Charger)
Department: New Product Development Location: Bengaluru, India Experience: 3+ Years
Your Team:
You'll be working with New Product Development — a group that runs on coffee and an infectious passion for building products that have never been built before. Our Flexible Energy Stack consists of the e^pack (battery pack) and e^pump (charging station), which unlock 15-minute rapid charging.
Our philosophy:
Break. Believe. Build.
Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule.
Believe in the team, the process, and through failures.
Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify.
Own it like you mean it.
What you’ll own:
We are seeking a Design Quality Engineer to own design-stage quality for our charger product line, ensuring architectural and component-level decisions meet performance, safety, and reliability requirements before they reach manufacturing.
The ideal candidate will have strong DFMEA experience, a solid grounding in power electronics, and comfort working directly with hardware design teams to catch issues early.
What you’ll do:
Design Quality & DFMEA
Lead DFMEA for charger hardware and subsystems across development stages
Review component selection and system architecture against specification intent
Identify design-stage failure modes and drive mitigation with design teams
Own design verification plan (DVP) definition for charger architecture
Validation & Testing
Define acceptance criteria and quality checkpoints for design validation testing
Review test reports and coordinate closure of design-related non-conformances
Support environmental, safety, and performance validation of charger hardware
Failure Analysis & Field Feedback
Analyze field and system-level issues traced to design or component decisions
Author Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) documentation to support Service diagnosis post-launch
Drive design improvements based on field failure trends
Cross-functional Collaboration
Interface with hardware, firmware, and process quality teams across the charger product lifecycle
Participate in design reviews and gate reviews as the quality voice
What you’ll bring:
Education qualification
B.E. / B.Tech in Electrical, Electronics, or related engineering field
3-6 years of experience in design quality or product development quality engineering
Strong understanding of DFMEA, DVP&R, and design-for-reliability principles
Working knowledge of power electronics and high/low voltage system fundamentals
Comfortable reading and reviewing electrical schematics and component datasheets
Preferred Experience (Good to Have):
Prior experience in EV charging, power electronics, or automotive electronics products
Exposure to fault tree analysis and service diagnostics documentation
Familiarity with relevant EV charging standards (e.g. IEC 61851)
What matters to us:
Quality of work
Structured problem-solving
Dissatisfaction with mediocre work
Ability to multi-task and handle a dynamic working environment
Resilient attitude to bounce back after failing
About Us:
Exponent is building the energy stack powering commercial EVs in India. Our proprietary battery and charging technology enables safe, reliable 15-minute rapid charging while delivering a 3,000-cycle battery life warranty using standard lithium-ion cells. Today, our platform powers high-utilisation commercial vehicles - from three-wheelers to intercity buses, making electric mobility rapid, more reliable and more affordable than petroleum.
Founded by Arun Vinayak (Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer, Ather Energy), Exponent is a 250+ member team of passionate builders solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in energy.
If solving hard engineering problems across mechanics, thermal systems, power electronics, manufacturing, and the charging network, while staying obsessed with customer experience excites you, we'd love to build with you.

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