Senior Quality Engineer

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

The Quality Engineering team partners with the D&D team to ensure products meet safety, regulatory, and quality requirements. The team authors product requirement documents, ensures all testing and quality documentation support shipment, and manages failure analysis, root cause analysis, customer complaints, and CAPA activities.

The Opportunity: 

As the Senior Quality Engineer, you will be based in Hosur, India as a key position within the Quality Engineering team and report to the Senior Quality Engineering Manager in China.

The role partners closely with vendor sites and offers hands-on impact across product quality and compliance. You may be stationed at vendor locations as required.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Work closely with the D&D team to ensure products meet all safety, regulatory, and quality requirements.
• Participate in design reviews, identifying potential quality risks, and ensuring quality standards are embedded throughout the product development process.
• Develop detailed product requirement documents that define product specifications and quality standards.
• Ensure all testing, quality documentation, and reports are completed and ready to support product shipment.
• Partner with the packaging design team to review and ensure packaging content meets all regulatory and quality requirements.
• Conduct thorough failure and root cause analyses when issues arise.
• Manage customer complaints and drive Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional teams to identify and implement opportunities for continuous product quality improvement.

What We’re Looking For: 

• Degree in Engineering or Science
• Three (3) or more years of manufacturing experience
• Solid experience in quality engineering
• Strong knowledge of quality tools and methodologies, including Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), DFMEA and PFMEA, Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, DOE, and related tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• One (1) or more years of experience in toy manufacturing
• Strong team collaboration skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Good knowledge of injection molding processes
• Knowledge of electrical and/or electronic engineering

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:
We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Flexible Work:
We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.

Who We Are:
Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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