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Supplier Quality Engineer
Philips North America LLC · 🇺🇸 Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 25 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Philips North America LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Process Quality Engineer” (Industrial Engineers) in OH: $115k–$115k, median $115k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 25 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Title Supplier Quality Engineer Job Description The Supplier Quality Engineer is a key member of Philips’ Image Guided Therapy Devices (IGTD) Quality team, responsible for driving supplier performance and continuous/process improvement, striving for continuous quality improvement throughout the product lifecycle, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Your role: • Coordinates and executes supplier improvement initiatives, managing the Approved Supplier List and negotiating Supplier Quality Agreements. • Provide sustaining SQE activities in managing daily NCR's, SCAR's, SCN's, and the ASL. Manage APQP with selected suppliers. • Facilitates technical capability assessments of potential new suppliers, ensuring they meet the company's quality standards, and contributes to the supplier selection. • Proactively monitoring and measuring product/process quality and performance trends and troubleshooting of production/release issues. • Assists with the process of making additions, changes, or deletions to the Approved Supplier List, ensuring that only qualified suppliers are retained. • Supports in end-to-end performance management of suppliers, conducts detailed analysis of defects to determine if they are supplier-caused, and acts as an independent reviewer for Supplier Corrective Action Requests. • Proactively monitoring and measuring product/process quality and performance trends and troubleshooting of production/release issues. • Develop and oversee equipment qualification and process validation plans and lead continuous improvement projects based on process/product trends, customer complaints, industry standards and government regulations. • Provide Quality oversight of product/process change requests from suppliers, ensuring appropriate regulatory review and adequate validation to support requested changes. • Drive supplier improvement, corrective and corrective actions (SCARS). • Serve as internal and supplier quality auditor, managing planning, execution, reporting and closure of audits and audit findings. You're the right fit if: • You have a minimum of 5+ years’ experience in Supplier Quality Engineering within FDA regulated medical device environments, with a focus on supplier selection, performance assessment, APQP, Risk Assessments/PFMEA’s, SPC, SCAR’s, SICR, CAPA, Remediation etc. • You have detailed knowledge of medical device regulations, requirements, and standards, such as 21 CFR Parts 803, 806, and 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, European Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC), EU Medical Device Regulation, Canadian Medical Devices Regulation (SOR/98-282).You have proven experience utilizing data analytics/KPI’s to assess supplier performance and identify/drive process improvement opportunities. • You have strong communications skills and the proven ability to effectively communicate, influence and build relationships cross-functionally with a variety of internal/external stakeholders, suppliers, Regulatory Agencies, Notified Bodies etc. • You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (Required) in Quality, Engineering, or related disciplines. ASQ and/or Six Sigma DfX Certifications- Desired. • You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position . How we work together: We believe that we are better together than a part. For our Office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence (% days per week) in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an Office-based role. About Philips: We are a health technology company.