Quality Engineer II Composites

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Texas

On-site

USD 80,000 - 110,000

Full time

11 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO (exempt)

3-month sabbatical every 5 years

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Mental health services

Paid military leave

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

401(k) with 4% match

Home purchase assistance: $10k

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is seeking a Quality Assurance professional for our Briggs, TX facility north of Cedar Park. This role focuses on developing and maintaining quality plans for flight products, ensuring compliance with AS9100/ISO9001, and guiding inspectors.

You will collaborate with design, engineering, and manufacturing teams, drive corrective actions, monitor first-pass yield, and uphold calibration and metrology processes while supporting Lean initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline (e.g., computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry).
3+ years of hands-on experience in a manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role.
Demonstrated ability to read technical drawings, GD&T, and related quality control documentation.
Experience with aerospace quality standards (AS9100 or ISO 9001).
ASQ CQE certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop quality plans for flight products with key characteristics, development testing, inspection planning, and lessons learned.
Develop and maintain inspection plans and standard work for launch vehicle components.
Ensure product acceptance aligned with customer and regulatory standards.
Lead Quality Inspectors in workflow and best practices.
Identify and document non-conformances affecting reliability and production efficiency.
Track production data on first-pass yield and non-conformance issues.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve quality issues and implement corrective actions.
Maintain calibration and metrology systems; perform periodic audits.
Support manufacturing compliance to meet contractual and mission requirements.

Skills

Quality eng

GD&T

Blueprints

AS9100/ISO9001

CQE

Teamwork

Process improv

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline

Job description

At Firefly, we're focused on making space attainable for everyone - including you! Each team member's passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there's no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands-on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly's hardworking team reflects Texas' GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We're building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We've achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we're dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Mental health services
Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

12 weeks paid maternity leave
4 weeks paid spouse leave
$20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

$10k/year towards trade school or college
Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills

Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
$10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We're looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space - anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Quality Assurance owns the processes and tools by which Firefly identifies, contains, eliminates, and prevents non-conformances. Quality is charged with defining and maintaining the processes and tools which prove product capabilities meet requirements and result in a predictably economical and reliable product.

This position is located at our Production and Test facility north of Cedar Park in Briggs, TX.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Collaborate with design, engineering, and manufacturing teams to develop quality plans for flight products, including key characteristic identification, development testing, inspection planning, and lessons learned.
Develop and maintain inspection plans and standard work instructions for launch vehicle/spacecraft components and sub-assemblies, ensuring consistent, repeatable products.
Ensure accurate and efficient product acceptance in alignment with customer and regulatory standards.
Generate records for traceability and pedigree of customer-deliverable products.
Lead and support Quality Inspectors in workflow, efficiency, and best practices.
Identify and document non-conformances affecting product reliability and production efficiency.
Collect, track, and analyze production data on first-pass yield and non-conformance issues.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve non-conformance or quality issues and implement corrective actions.
Develop and execute quarantine plans for non-conforming products.
Maintain tool control and calibration processes, including validation of metrology systems.
Perform periodic product and process audits to ensure compliance with the Firefly Quality Management System.
Implement standards, tools, and methods to ensure the effectiveness of quality processes and sustain improvements.
Execute projects and process improvements to reduce Cost of Poor Quality.
Review designs and procedures to mitigate manufacturability and inspection challenges.
Ensure compliance with external standards and regulations.
Participate in technical operations and offer guidance as a technical engineering resource.
Initiate and execute plans to improve product quality, reliability, and inspection efficiency.
Apply 6S workplace organization and follow Lean initiatives.
Support manufacturing compliance to meet contractual and mission requirements.
Perform other duties as assigned.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Required

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline (e.g. computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry)
3+ years of hands-on experience in a manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role
Demonstrated ability to apply engineering fundamentals, interpret technical information, develop technical instructions, and understand: technical drawings, specifications, GD&T, and related quality control documentation and standards.
Experience with standards and/or equivalent quality, military, or government standards in the aerospace industry.
Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
Flexibility regarding workflow and process.
Excellent organization skills. Willingness to work with a team, share expertise, and follow instructions to accomplish established goals.
Demonstrated experience applying quality assurance principles, methods, and processes - including inspection techniques, equipment, and tools used in quality control.
Comprehensive understanding of aerospace manufacturing processes, materials, and specifications.
Demonstrated competency in structures/composites, electrical/avionics, and fluids/propulsion disciplines.
Full capability to read and understand blueprints, drawings GD&T, and Model-Based Definitions.
Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, measurement systems analysis, design of experiments, statistical process control, root cause analysis and corrective action, advanced product quality planning (APQP), metrology, process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and various problem solving approaches
Demonstrated experience with application of aerospace quality standards, such as AS9100 or ISO 9001
ASQ CQE

Primary Level Salary Range:

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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