Manager, Technical Quality Engineering

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.   We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.   Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

Manager, Technical Quality Engineering 

About Lucid Motors 

Lucid Motors is redefining luxury mobility through advanced electric vehicle technology, uncompromising quality, and world‑class manufacturing. As Lucid advances products from concept through launch and into sustained production, strong technical quality leadership is critical to preventing engineering risk, ensuring build readiness, and protecting product integrity across the full vehicle lifecycle. 

Role Summary 

As Manager, Technical Quality Engineering, you will lead a team responsible for technical quality execution, upstream engineering risk prevention, and build‑phase quality performance across Lucid’s vehicle programs. This role spans concept and DFM through prototype, DV/PV builds, launch, and continuous improvement, ensuring product and process risks are identified early, validation readiness is achieved, and issues are driven to robust closure through engineering discipline. You will partner closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Program Management, and Test & Validation to protect launch readiness and vehicle quality in a fast‑paced EV environment. 

Explicit boundary: This role applies APQP tools and supports program‑level quality gates but does not own enterprise APQP execution, PDP cadence, or portfolio‑level APQP governance. 

Local travel between Phoenix and Coolidge/Casa Grande is required, with occasional travel to California, Michigan, or AMP‑2. 

 

YOU WILL 

Technical Quality Leadership & Team Management 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing Technical Quality Engineering team. 

• Set priorities, balance workload, and ensure timely execution of program‑level technical quality deliverables. 

• Build team capability in DFM/DFA, GD&T, tolerance analysis, core quality tools, and structured problem solving. 

• Serve as the escalation point for complex and high‑impact technical quality issues. 

Upstream Product Quality & Engineering Risk Prevention 

• Drive early quality engagement during concept, architecture, and design phases. 

• Identify design‑ and system‑level risks and ensure mitigation plans are in place prior to design freeze and tooling commitment. 

• Ensure product quality and validation expectations are technically sound and achievable. 

Technical Quality Engineering Execution 

• Oversee quality engineering support for prototype, DV, PV, and pre‑series builds. 

• Ensure issues are identified early, tracked accurately, and driven to verified closure. 

• Validate design intent, part readiness, and process capability through build learning and verification. 

Quality Tools, Engineering Analysis & Dimensional Governance 

• Ensure effective application of APQP, PPAP, DFMEA/PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, and SPC at the technical execution level. 

• Review and guide GD&T interpretation and tolerance stack‑ups in partnership with design and metrology teams.