Quality Engineering Lead

Logos Space; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Logos Space, located in San Diego, is looking for a Quality Engineering Lead to establish and manage quality metrics for their LEO satellite systems. This role involves driving partnerships with suppliers, ensuring production readiness, and executing a data-driven approach to quality. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Compensation ranges from $170K to $230K and the environment promotes creativity and diversity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering in hardware production.
• Experience with quality metrics management such as AQL and yield analysis.
• Proven ability to partner with suppliers for quality management.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage key quality metrics for production.
• Lead supplier partnerships to ensure quality alignment.
• Define prototype testing requirements for production readiness.
• Ensure production systems meet mission requirements.
• Balance testing rigor with production rate and mission risk.
• Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing processes.
• Communicate quality performance to executive leadership.

Skills

Quality metrics management

Data-driven decision-making

Supplier quality management

Statistical Process Control

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Position Summary & Responsibilities

Logos Space is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system purpose-built to serve the connectivity needs of the commercial enterprise users and government users. We will help fill an important gap in the market, providing resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers worldwide. Business customers have contracts with agreed-upon performance standards for their broadband, and Logos will build these capabilities into the system from the beginning. Speed and reliability are the foundation of the system. Logos is designed to extend cloud and data center network connectivity anywhere in the world to fixed, seaborne, and airborne terminals.

Logos is led by a team of highly experienced engineers with proven track records in the networking and satellite industries.

We are seeking an analytical and pragmatic Quality Engineering Lead to drive the quality strategy for our LEO satellite constellation, focusing on a high-rate production. This is a critical operations leadership role responsible for setting and managing quality metrics at the supplier level, bus partner level, and payload assembly level. The ideal candidate will partner closely with suppliers, external bus partners, and contract manufacturers. This role is unique in that it requires a data-driven, analytical approach to quality, emphasizing process control and readiness, while necessitating calculated trades to balance meeting rate production schedules with mission risk—moving beyond the traditional, ideological dogma of full testing common in space production. You will be instrumental in ensuring production and mission readiness through rigorous prototype testing and in-line quality management at the production level.

You should be prepared to work and thrive in a fast moving environment where you are comfortable taking vague requirements and direction and executing on the Logos product mission. We are seeking people who love to solve hard problems, have a bias for action and extreme task ownership.

Responsibilities

• Quality System Management: Establish and manage key quality metrics, including Acceptable Quality Limit (AQL) levels, yields, and in-process validation protocols for all supplier components, bus production/integration, and payload assemblies.
• Supplier & Partner Quality: Lead quality partnership efforts with key suppliers to define, implement, and audit in-line quality production points, ensuring alignment with rate production schedules.
• Production Readiness: Define and execute prototype testing requirements to rigorously demonstrate the production readiness of the Logos product.
• Mission Readiness: Ensure all production and integration systems are validated to successfully meet the product mission requirements, specifically focusing on critical-to-quality (CTQ) parameters.
• Risk & Trade Management: Employ an analytical, data-driven approach to quality, making calculated trades between testing rigor, production rate, and assumed mission risk to meet aggressive schedules.
• Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives in manufacturing processes and quality systems across the entire supply chain and in-house production.
• Leadership & Communication: Serve as a key operations leader, communicating quality status, risks, and performance to executive leadership and cross-functional teams (Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain).

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Operations within a high-volume, complex hardware production environment.
• Demonstrated experience in managing quality metrics such as AQL, yield analysis, and Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Experience partnering with external suppliers and contract manufacturers to manage in-line quality and production readiness.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data-driven decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
• Experience in a hybrid production environment (e.g., combining commercial/high-rate manufacturing practices with aerospace/high-reliability standards).
• Direct experience with LEO satellite systems, or complex regulated hardware (e.g., automotive, medical devices, defense).
• Certification in relevant quality disciplines (e.g., ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt).
• Strong understanding of space system qualification and acceptance testing principles (e.g., protoflight testing) and the ability to tailor them for a rate production environment.
• Demonstrated ability to make risk-informed quality decisions under aggressive timelines.

Logos Space Services is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering creativity, curiosity and diverse perspectives among employees. We seek to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential and drive outstanding results. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law. This policy applies with regard to all aspects of one's employment, including hiring, transfer, promotion, compensation, eligibility for benefits, and termination. Offers will be contingent on the candidate's ability to access export-controlled information under U.S. law.

Compensation Range: $170K - $230K