Hardware Validation & Lab Operations Engineer
Location
New York, NY
Wage
$110,000 – $120,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 17, 2026
Location
New York, NY
Wage
$110,000 – $120,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 17, 2026
Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. They are looking for humble geniuses who are innovators in engineering to contribute to meaningful work.
At roughly $55/hr, this posting sits about 38% above the $40/hr median for welding jobs in New York, NY — toward the top of a $38–$84/hr middle band drawn from 15 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in New York, NY right now, from 24 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 175 other active welding openings from 114 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in New York, or widen the search to New York.
The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (16), Philips (6), and GE Aerospace (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $40/hr, Brooklyn at $30/hr, and Latham at $24/hr. New York is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Hardware Validation & Lab Operations Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.