Design Quality Engineering
Deep technical IC
Career Explorer · Quality, Regulatory & Product Safety · Quality Engineering
Entry: Design Quality EngineerIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Design Quality Engineer InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Design Quality EngineerIC1
- Design Quality EngineerIC2
- Senior Design Quality EngineerIC3
- Staff Design Quality EngineerIC4
- Principal Design Quality EngineerIC5
- Senior Principal Design Quality EngineerIC6
- Distinguished Design Quality EngineerIC7
- Fellow, Design Quality EngineeringIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites