Quality Engineer, Spacecraft Hardware — Growth & Equity

Katalyst Space; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation bonus

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Katalyst Space is seeking a quality-focused professional to establish and maintain robust quality management systems for hardware manufacturing. You will train teams, drive corrective actions, and monitor supplier quality while ensuring calibration traceability and process improvements.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in structured QMS, nonconformance resolution, and collaboration with suppliers and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other technical field required.
• 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or hardware quality environment.
• Experience working with a structured Quality Management System.
• Experience investigating and resolving nonconformances.
• Experience working with suppliers and managing quality-related issues.

Responsibilities

• Establish, implement, and maintain quality management system procedures and processes.
• Provide management system training and guidance to internal stakeholders to build, implement and improve policies and procedures.
• Lead investigations to identify root causes and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Build and maintain a supplier quality dashboard to track performance metrics, audit results, nonconformances, and corrective actions.
• Establish and maintain a formal calibration system to track measurement and test equipment and manage third-party calibration providers.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to reduce defects, improve yield, and increase production efficiency.
• Develop and deliver quality management training and reinforce process discipline.
• Collaborate with procurement and engineering to ensure quality requirements are defined and executed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Process-oriented

Stakeholder management

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical field

Tools

Quality Management System (QMS)

Job description

Katalyst Space is seeking a quality-focused professional to establish and maintain robust quality management systems for hardware manufacturing. You will train teams, drive corrective actions, and monitor supplier quality while ensuring calibration traceability and process improvements.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in structured QMS, nonconformance resolution, and collaboration with suppliers and engineering teams.