Instrumental Inc

Data Quality Team Lead

Palo Alto, USA

Sponsorship not specified$131k-$170kDetected 240 days ago

Process ImprovementCustomer SuccessLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

We capture digital exhaust and engineering context from assembly lines-images, test logs, BOM data, performance, repair cycles-and our AI engines identify insights that are difficult or impossible for human engineers to find.
This position is ideal for a professional with experience in electronics manufacturing or quality control with people leadership experience.
Set clear expectations, allocate workloads, and ensure consistent, high-quality execution across the team.

Team Leadership & Cross-functional Coordination Hire, lead, coach, and develop a team of Data Quality Specialists, starting with an initial team in Shenzhen, China.
Hands-On Data Quality Work Set Up Customer Program Environments: Partner closely with global Customer Success teams to prepare customer environments for high-quality data ingestion and anomaly detection.
Label and Review Data: Perform detailed hands-on classification and review of product images to produce training data for AI models and validate model outputs.
Maintain Quality Standards: Adhere to structured guidelines while ensuring that quality control processes are followed consistently across the team.
Data Reporting: Clean, analyze, and summarize customer image data to support defect trend analysis and program ROI reporting.
Ensure timely escalation and develop improvements to workflows and documentation.
Prior experience hiring, managing, and leading teams Excellent spoken and written Mandarin and English Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to perform repetitive tasks with consistency and accuracy.
manage and grow a global Data Quality team, including an existing team in Shenzhen and US, while also rolling up their sleeves to perform hands-on data quality work.
Clean, analyze, and summarize customer image data to support defect trend analysis and program ROI reporting.

What You Have: 2-4 years of experience in manufacturing, quality inspection, process engineering, or similar roles-ideally within the high-tech electronics industry.

2-4 years of experience in manufacturing, quality inspection, process engineering, or similar roles-ideally within the high-tech electronics industry.
Strong interpersonal skills and comfort working with global, cross-functional teams.
Technically savvy and eager to learn new tools, systems, and processes.
Ability to learn quickly, follow structured workflows, and apply feedback to improve program results.

$131,000-$170,000 Job leveling and salary opportunity are evaluated through our interview process-we review each applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Instrumental's benefits include: Health, Vision, Dental, Public Transit/Commuter Plans, and Parental Leave.

This hybrid leadership role directly impacts the quality of results our customers see in the Instrumental platform and is key to scaling our world-class manufacturing AI solutions.

This listing is sourced directly from Instrumental Inc's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.