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# Customer Quality Engineer at Aperia Technologies, Inc

- **Company:** Aperia Technologies, Inc
- **Location:** Hayward, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aperiatechnologies/jobs/6180220004

## Job description

Aperia is unlocking a new era of efficiency and sustainability for commercial vehicle fleets, by developing innovative hardware and data analytics solutions. Inventors of the award- winning and disruptive Halotm Automatic Tire Inflator, and the cloud delivered Halo Connect tire analytics platform. Aperia saves fleets thousands of hours of down-time every week, reduces the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the freight industry. Join us as we expand our product offering and take the next steps on our journey toward bringing the "backbone of our economy" into the automation age.

We are unable to sponsor H-1B visas or other employment-based visas for this position at this time.

## Your Role

As a Customer Quality Engineer (CQE), you will serve as the primary technical liaison between our manufacturing facilities and automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers. You will work directly with customers and collaborate with internal quality, manufacturing, and engineering teams to investigate concerns, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement. You will ensure that customer quality requirements and technical expectations are clearly understood, documented, communicated, and met.

## Your Responsibilities

- Serve as the first point of contact for OEM customer quality tasks, engage with customer portals, lead regular reviews presenting pertinent data.
- Lead 8D investigations and corrective actions within the factory for customer issues using tools like 5-Why and Ishikawa diagrams or others.
- Participate in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and coordinate Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) submissions to customers.
- Participate in the creation and maintenance of Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) and Control Plans for new and existing products.
- Monitor and report on customer-specific quality metrics, including Parts Per Million (PPM) defects and operational disruptions.
- Support the continuous improvement of manufacturing processes to ensure that the highest quality products possible are delivered to customers.
- Author and execute CARs/SCARs as required to resolve internal/external quality issues
- Statistically analyze data using Excel, Minitab or similar to generate reports on quality issues and review with internal engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Create working documents for quality tasks and train the quality & manufacturing team.
- Be a key leader in the implementation and maintenance of IATF 16949 into our QMS.
- Participate in various special projects that support the quality, manufacturing and engineering teams.

## Skills/Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in automotive quality engineering or a Tier-1 supplier environment.
- Strong working knowledge of automotive core tools (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC)
- Detailed understanding of IATF 16949 and VDA 6.3 quality management systems.
- Experience navigating OEM customer portals.
- Ability to travel up to 25%

Pay Range: $130,000 - $150,000

*Base salary only. Salary dependent on multiple factors including, but not limited to, experience and location.

**Addition compensation may include equity, bonuses, stipends, medical, dental, vision, 401-k, and long-term disability insurance.

## About Aperia Technologies, Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aperia Technologies provides automatic tire inflation and predictive tire management platforms for commercial truck fleets, improving fuel efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $68.7M, multiple rounds including Series B and venture rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Hayward, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed (likely founders are not widely named; no info in search results)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Tire management technology, commercial transportation, mechanical/industrial engineering
- **Target customers**: B2B – commercial truck fleets (enterprise and mid-size fleets), with Tires-as-a-Service offerings
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Change the world, one revolution at a time” – to uncover opportunities, reveal creative technology solutions, and make transportation more efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly.

## Products & Services
- **Halo Tire Inflator**: Automatic tire inflation system (hardware) that maintains optimal tire pressure, reducing fuel consumption, tire wear, and downtime. Lab-tested to one million miles and road-tested over 30 billion miles.
- **Halo Connect**: Predictive tire pressure monitoring platform (SaaS + IoT) that provides real-time alerts and analytics to fleets.
- **Halo Connect i3**: Next-generation platform combining automatic tire inflation with predictive TPMS and machine learning, offering the most advanced tire management solution for commercial fleets. Integrates with Tires-as-a-Service models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $7.2M (estimated from LinkedIn); Total Funding $68.7M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: eLab Ventures, Municipal Employee Retirement System, Augment Ventures (led seed round), and other unnamed investors. Strategic partner: Goodyear (exclusive automatic tire inflation agreement for Tires-as-a-Service with Halo Connect i3, announced March 2025).
- **Growth Signals**: 119 employees (16.2% YoY growth); 100 billion miles driven across the Halo platform; 30 billion road-tested miles; expansion into Tires-as-a-Service; multiple patents granted in 2024-2025 (hub-integrated inflation system, automatic pressure management system); new product launches (Halo Connect i3) in 2024.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Rugged, American-made hardware validated over billions of miles of real-world data. Algorithms trained on more than 30 billion miles, delivering predictive alerts that reduce false positives and improve uptime.
- **Comprehensive solution**: Only tire management platform offering automatic inflation, predictive analytics, and Tires-as-a-Service integration in a single ecosystem.
- **Sustainability moat**: Delivers the most CO₂ savings per dollar spent of any truck technology available today, aligning with fleets’ ESG goals.
- **Industry trust**: Chosen by the world’s largest brands and now partnering with Goodyear, one of the largest tire manufacturers globally.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth via Tires-as-a-Service**: Partnering with Goodyear to embed Halo Connect i3 into tire leasing models, shifting from hardware sales to subscription-based services.
- **International expansion**: Presence in Netherlands, Mexico, and Canada; listed offices in the US (Hayward, Burlingame, Northville, MI).
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in machine learning and predictive analytics to reduce tire-related downtime further.
- **Sustainability leadership**: Emphasizing environmental impact as a core differentiator, with tire pressure management reducing diesel usage and tire waste.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven environment**: Team members are enthusiastic about positively affecting the environment and the freight transportation industry.
- **Culture highlights**: Values teamwork, positive collaboration, and “fulfilling successes, magnificent failures, and needle-moving contributions.” Employees report being both challenged and supported.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Multiple physical offices (Hayward, Burlingame, Northville, MI). Roles likely on-site or hybrid, especially engineering and manufacturing positions.
- **Notable perks**: Unique development opportunities, measurable impact on company growth, involvement in pioneering tire management technology.
- **Employee ratings** (from LinkedIn): Overall 3.7/5, Work-Life 3.6, Culture 3.6, Compensation 3.3, Career 3.7. Recent job postings include Mechatronics Engineer, Sr. Engineering Project Manager, Reliability Engineer, Sr. Software Product Manager, Talent Operations Associate, and more.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasizes rugged design, real-world testing, and cross-disciplinary mechatronics skills. Technical roles span hardware, software, ML, and manufacturing.

## Sources
1. [Aperia Technologies Homepage](https://aperiatech.com)
2. [Aperia Technologies Company Page](https://aperiatech.com/company/)
3. [Aperia Technologies Careers Page](https://aperiatech.com/careers/)
4. [Aperia Technologies LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aperia-technologies)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board for Aperia Technologies](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aperiatechnologies)
6. [PR Newswire – Goodyear Agreement (March 2025)](https://www.prnewswire.com) (referenced in LinkedIn news)
7. [PR Newswire – 100 Billion Miles Milestone (May 2024)](https://www.prnewswire.com) (referenced in LinkedIn news)

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