Edge Compute & Communications Quality Engineer

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

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Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Quality Engineering Specialist to join our team in strengthening the defense tech edge. You will monitor, inspect, and improve final products to meet stringent quality standards, embedding with manufacturing to resolve nonconforming materials.

You will lead MRB, review work instructions, support inspectors, perform containment, root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvements alongside product quality engineers.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent in a relevant fields, or equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing and/or a quality/engineering related role.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment supporting HW development and quality management.
• Proficiency with computer-aided design (CAD) software and inspection data management software.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Experience with Calibrated equipment (calipers, micrometers, CMM, Faro arm, OMM, etc.)
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings (wire diagrams, work instructions, CAD)
• Analyze inspection results and provide feedback to production, manufacturing engineering, and quality engineering departments.
• Experience using investigative equipment such as x-ray inspection, digital characterization, material certificate of compliance, etc.
• Experience in a facility with AS9100, ISO9001, IATF 16949 or similar QMS standard
• Experience with validation and testing assemblies and their components
• Experience with communicating with suppliers and cross functional teams
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance

Responsibilities

• Manages the site Materials Review Board (MRB) process
• Be fully imbedded within manufacturing process to actively assist in providing resolution, containment, and improvement to nonconforming materials
• Review Manufacturing Work Instructions and provide feedback
• Support in providing clarification or go/no-go decisions to inspectors
• Lead and own the execution of containment of nonconforming items including inspecting to verify non-conforming parts
• Assist in the root cause analysis
• Manage internal triage with engineering teams to support nonconformance dispositions and ensure the investigative tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Ensure data collection and entry is accurate and complete for the MRB process
• Communicate the process performance and quality issues to key stakeholders to drive improvements
• Track and report out MRB metrics on a weekly basis
• Execute vendor return material authorization (RMA) with partnership between Warehouse and Buyers to ensure material leaves the MRB area for suppliers.
• Manage quality containment process for material, tooling, and inspection equipment that are involved in non-conformances impacting production capacity and capability.
• Create inspection plans for incoming material, in-process inspection steps, and end of line inspection, as per direction from product quality engineers
• Train technicians and inspectors to execute inspection plans and data capture in the process.
• Propose, develop and implement quality assurance policies and procedures and review with the product quality engineers
• Review and propose continuous improvement projects for productivity gains, quality improvements, and benefits to Anduril's quality policy.
• Perform internal audits on processes and procedures, as per direction from Quality Systems Engineer
• Deep dive into data and traceability investigations to identify trends, oddities, inconsistencies, and variation that impacts the effectiveness of processes, procedures, and product quality.
• Stay current with new inspection technologies and techniques and recommend improvements to the inspection process

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Quality management

Cross-functional communication

Data analysis

AS9100/ISO9001 knowledge

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Tools

CAD software

Inspection data management

Jira

MES

ERP

Teamcenter

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Quality Engineering Specialist to join our team in strengthening the defense tech edge. You will monitor, inspect, and improve final products to meet stringent quality standards, embedding with manufacturing to resolve nonconforming materials.

You will lead MRB, review work instructions, support inspectors, perform containment, root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvements alongside product quality engineers.