Product Integration Quality Engineer

Role: Product Integration Quality Engineer 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 Product Integration Quality Engineer to own end-to-end quality for our integrated powertrain products as they come together across battery, motor, and vehicle systems — from design validation through customer-facing performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong systems-level thinking, hands-on DFMEA/PFMEA experience, and the ability to trace a performance issue back through multiple interacting subsystems. What you’ll do: Integration Quality Ownership • Own end-to-end quality for powertrain integration across battery, motor, controller, and supporting systems • Lead DFMEA and PFMEA for integration-level builds • Define end-of-line and process checkpoints for integration testing Performance & Failure Analysis • Analyze product performance (range, drivability, reliability) and lead RCA on performance issues • Predict and pre-empt failure modes based on integration-level risk analysis • Run preliminary RCA on customer-reported issues and escalate as needed Service Readiness • Prepare Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) documentation to support Service diagnosis • Identify service requirements — maintenance schedules, SOP gaps — and drive them into development • Apply Design-for-Service thinking during development and feed back to design teams Cross-functional Collaboration • Interface with battery, motor, and vehicle integration engineering teams • Represent quality at integration-stage gate reviews What you’ll bring: • Education qualification • B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, or Automotive Engineering • 4-7 years of experience in vehicle or systems integration quality • Strong DFMEA/PFMEA and APQP process experience • Ability to analyze vehicle-level performance data and connect it to root cause Preferred Experience (Good to Have): • Experience with EV powertrain or multi-domain systems integration • Experience in a fast-scaling startup environment • Exposure to customer-facing RCA and service SOP development 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.