Manager, Product Quality Engineering - Bolt

Anduril; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Manager of Product Quality Engineering for Bolt. You will lead a team responsible for defining and executing processes that deliver high-quality, reliable products across their lifecycle.

You will partner with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Program Management and Deployments to ensure quality readiness from prototype testing through full-rate production. The role requires deep knowledge of manufacturing, product development, and metrology, with a track

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality teams and implementing QMS processes.
• Evidence-based approach to product quality, reliability, and field performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Test and Supply Chain to meet PDP gate criteria.
• Lead and manage teams to ensure quality readiness for production scaling.
• Drive RCCA, NCR, CAPA, and MRB processes across Bolt lifecycle.
• Oversee supplier quality control and part qualification programs.
• Define and improve quality control methods and tooling with design partners.
• Set priorities and promote best-in-class product quality culture.
• Lead design reviews, process development, and verification activities.
• Improve product health analytics and key quality metrics.

Skills

Leadership

Quality engineering

RCCA

CAPA

Supplier quality

NPI process

Process improvement

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Tactical Effects (TFX), as part of Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike (TRS) team, is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Man-packable portable systems to expeditionary multi-mission to mass counter UAS defense and strike. We work to clearly understand customer requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers' most pressing national security requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB

As the Manager of Product Quality Engineering for Bolt , you will lead a team of product quality engineers and quality specialists who will work inside and outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality and reliable products. Your leadership will impact how Anduril delivers production quality and sustaining support for Bolt across its lifecycle. You will build partnerships with heads of production, manufacturing engineering, program management, deployments, sourcing and multiple engineering teams. The right person for this role has knowledge of manufacturing, product development, sub-system performance criteria and metrology, and leadership experience to contribute to Anduril's mission.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop close collaboration with Product, Engineering, Test, and Supply Chain leadership teams and execute to Product Development Process (PDP) to meet all gate readiness review criteria (CDR, BRR, MRR/PRR) engaging from early prototype testing to full rate production.
• Be the voice and leader for product development, production quality, supplier quality, and all the functions that contribute to an efficient and effective NPI/production process and delivery of Bolt to Anduril customers.
• Lead and manage a team to champion continuous improvement and failure mode elimination in the development and production phases, driving part and system level quality readiness for production scaling, and supporting customer / deployment quality issues.
• Own and utilize Supplier Quality Engineering resources to own and track supplier quality control and development program for Bolt as well as supplier part qualification and risk management programs.
• Own and lead Quality Control process, framework, and execution starting from detailed engineering requirements and risks all the way to managing inspection methods and tooling by collaborating with systems design partners and providing leadership and prioritization to quality control teams.
• Set daily and weekly priorities for the quality teams and establish culture of best-in-class product quality by driving the adoption and consistent use of quality tools and processes.
• Drive production readiness by detailed design reviews, process development, verification/validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assembly, and system deployments.
• Drive clarity and resolution for performance ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance that impact Bolt meeting its quality and reliability goals for production.
• Drive ongoing quality performance for incoming quality control, in-process quality control, and end of line quality.
• Own the elimination of product risk by reducing process contribution to quality and reliability across the product lifecycle.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA), Non-Conformance Reviews (NCRs), Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), and Material Review Board (MRB) activities. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
• Own and lead cross functional alignment within Corrective Action Board (CAB) activities to drive ownership to investigations and resolutions of quality issues regarding design, integration, process, and supply chain.
• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities. Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict quality performance. Drive performance when out of goal/out of specification conditions occur.
• Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System needed to support the process and product. Define and improve required documentation and activities.