Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Supplier Quality Engineer: $128K median posted pay.
From 79 salary bands employers posted on 181 open supplier quality engineer roles in manufacturing. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 47 | $165K | — |
| Mid | 6 | — (4 of 8 bands) | — |
| Principal | 6 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
| Staff | 3 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Intern | 2 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Jabil | 15 | — |
| Anduril Industries | 13 | — |
| Flextronics | 8 | — |
| Danaher | 6 | — |
| Moog | 6 | — |
| Curtisswright | 5 | — |
| Archer | 4 | — |
| Rocket Lab | 4 | — |
| Medtronic (Redeploymentmedtroniccareers) | 4 | — |
| Copeland | 4 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open supplier quality engineer roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Supplier Quality | 180 | — |
| Quality Engineering | 180 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 111 | — |
| Nonconformance Handling | 104 | — |
| First Article Inspection | 94 | — |
| Supply Chain Coordination | 91 | — |
| ISO Standards | 73 | — |
| Statistical Process Control | 67 | — |
| Root Cause Analysis | 64 | — |
| Six Sigma | 63 | — |
Where the work is
2% of these roles are remote.
- Remote2%3 roles
- Hybrid2%3 roles
- On site72%131 roles
- Not stated24%44 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 181 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 79 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Supplier Quality Engineer (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in manufacturing, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.