Junior Aerospace QA Engineer - Compliance & Audits

Griffon Aerospace; Madison (AL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Job summary

Griffon Aerospace, located in Madison, Alabama, seeks a Junior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to oversee software development and verification processes for unmanned aircraft systems. You will review lifecycle records, assist with audits, track corrective actions, and ensure plans and procedures are followed across engineering teams in a regulated aerospace environment.

The role emphasizes organization, objectivity, and collaboration, with a path toward handling audits and reporting quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 0–2 years of software quality assurance, software engineering, testing, compliance, or related experience.
• Foundational understanding of software development lifecycles, document control, and configuration management.
• Ability to evaluate records against documented requirements and identify clear, evidence-based discrepancies.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain complete, accurate, and auditable records.
• Proficiency with common office, collaboration, issue-tracking, or requirements-management tools.
• Strong organization, judgment, teamwork, and written communication skills.
• Must have or be able to obtain a U.S. SECRET security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Review software lifecycle records for completeness, consistency, approvals, traceability, and compliance with approved procedures.
• Assist with software process audits, work-product reviews, and milestone assessments under the direction of senior quality personnel.
• Track audit findings, nonconformances, corrective actions, and closure evidence to completion.
• Verify that software baselines, change records, problem reports, and release documentation are properly controlled.
• Support reviews of plans, standards, requirements, test records, and configuration-management evidence.
• Collect and report quality metrics, recurring issues, and process-adherence trends.
• Maintain accurate quality records and support internal, customer, and regulatory audit preparation.
• Promote adherence to software quality, safety, cybersecurity, and continuous improvement practices.

Skills

Attention to detail

Written communication

Teamwork

Organization

Judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software/Quality/Systems Engineering or related field

Tools

Office productivity tools

Issue-tracking tools (Jira, etc.)

Job description

Griffon Aerospace, located in Madison, Alabama, seeks a Junior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to oversee software development and verification processes for unmanned aircraft systems. You will review lifecycle records, assist with audits, track corrective actions, and ensure plans and procedures are followed across engineering teams in a regulated aerospace environment.

The role emphasizes organization, objectivity, and collaboration, with a path toward handling audits and reporting quality