Quality Engineer II — Aerospace Electronics, Growth & Impact

CesiumAstro; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

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Job summary

CesiumAstro is seeking a Quality Engineer II to strengthen product and process quality for space-grade electronics. You will coordinate quality planning, inspections, and CAPA activities, ensuring products meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Join a startup-like environment where cross-functional teamwork supports manufacturing readiness, process control, and continuous improvement across engineering, operations, and supply chain. A strong data-driven mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• 2–5 years of quality assurance/quality engineering experience.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and inspection methodologies.
• Experience with CAPA and quality reporting processes.
• Ability to analyze data and drive quality improvements.

Responsibilities

• Assist with quality assurance activities by evaluating product and process requirements, inspection results, and quality documentation to ensure compliance with established standards.
• Perform quality evaluations, inspections, and process monitoring activities while identifying quality issues and recommending corrective actions that improve product quality and process performance.
• Support validation activities, first article inspections, process verification, and quality reviews that ensure products and manufacturing processes meet customer and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain quality records, inspection documentation, nonconformance reports, and quality data within quality management systems to support compliance, traceability, and reporting.
• Analyze quality metrics, inspection results, process performance, and defect trends to identify opportunities for process improvement and risk reduction.
• Support root cause investigations and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities by documenting findings, tracking action items, and verifying implementation effectiveness.
• Partner cross-functionally with quality, engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and finance to support quality objectives and operational priorities.
• Communicate quality issues, inspection findings, process concerns, corrective action status, and quality trends to appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate quality activities that support manufacturing readiness, product acceptance, customer requirements, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Quality assurance

CAPA

Statistical analysis

Process improvement

Root cause analysis

QMS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

ETQ Reliance

Arena QMS

MasterControl

Job description

CesiumAstro is seeking a Quality Engineer II to strengthen product and process quality for space-grade electronics. You will coordinate quality planning, inspections, and CAPA activities, ensuring products meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Join a startup-like environment where cross-functional teamwork supports manufacturing readiness, process control, and continuous improvement across engineering, operations, and supply chain. A strong data-driven mindset is essential.