Senior Product Quality Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; Ashville (OH); Presencial; USD 127.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer for our Arsenal-1 facility to drive high-quality missile programs. You will partner with design teams to meet stringent quality requirements, ensure robust test plans, and lead root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.

The role requires experience in missile systems QA, metrology, and continuous improvement, with strong collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field.
• Experience in missile or high-velocity vehicle quality engineering.
• Knowledge of missile systems QA, PCBA, avionics and propulsion.
• Ability to translate requirements into test and measurement system specs.
• Collaborates with reliability, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• FMEA/APQP/PPAP knowledge including MSA and GD&T.
• Understanding of mechanical/electrical manufacturing processes.

Responsabilidades

• Drive product quality and process development for missile programs.
• Lead RCCA and MRB activities.
• Define quality requirements and ensure acceptance testing.
• Develop quality plans and APQP-like processes for missile projects.
• Lead data analysis of product health and establish quality metrics.
• Coordinate with suppliers and internal teams to ensure quality.
• Improve QMS documentation and activities.

Conocimientos

Missile quality engineering

Quality systems

FMEA/APQP/PPAP

GD&T/MSA

Design review

Manufacturing processes

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Master’s degree in a technical field

Herramientas

Teamcenter

SolidWorks/NX

Jira

Foundry

MES (Manufacturing Execution System)

Descripción del empleo

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.

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

As aSenior Product Quality Engineeryou will support our Barracuda product teams at our Arsenal-1 facility. You will work inside & outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality missile programs. This role focuses on collaborating and driving early engagement with our design teams and partner to meet our quality requirements the first time and to evaluate the product health & performance. The right person for this role has knowledge of missile product performance, sub-system performance criteria, metrology, and continuous improvement. An ideal candidate for this role has experiences in missile manufacturing, product development, test/system performance criteria, metrology, and quality planning. If you are someone who loves to build world-class quality processes and missile products, work hands-on with engineering, and be accountable for results of a small team, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Drive product development and production for missile programs using processes such as drawing and work instruction reviews, quality planning, inspection, acceptance test performance management, end-of-line metrics, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assemblies, and the vehicle, itself.
• Drive clarity & resolution for production ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance.
• Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable, high rate manufacturing process, supply chain, and deployment support.
• Own the elimination of product risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle.
• Ensure the execution of product and process requirements. Define and improve such requirements.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA), Material Review Board (MRB) activities, and inspection process performance. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities. Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict quality performance.
• Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System. Define and improve required documentation and activities.
• Develop an overall quality plan (similar to APQP) for various missile projects. Leverage resources and direct reports to delivery quality through the development cycle. Design, development, and leverage elements of the Anduril QMS to build confidence and containment for missile customers quality expectations. Set expectations for qualification of internal and external manufacturing processes including measurement methods, PPAP/FAI, inspection methods & test protocol & acceptance test plans for missile programs. Lead the transition from engineering qualification to manufacturing variance testing for product quality coverage.
• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities for the missile projects.
• Matrix lead supplier quality engineers who are supporting the design and development activities with the suppliers for Missile programs.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field
• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality on previous Missiles or high velocity vehicle systems.
• Working knowledge of design review and quality management of missile systems, PCBA, harnessing, avionics, systems integration, composites/control surfaces, propulsion systems, and lethality systems.
• Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measurement system development and optimization. Knowledgeable of missile storage and maintenance processes.
• Experience partnering with Reliability Engineering, chief engineers, architects, manufacturing engineering, and customer facing team members to deliver to customer requirements.
• Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements such as Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes. Application of industry standards and best practices
• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experiences for data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, and statistical analysis tools (MatLab, JMP, MiniTab, etc)
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in a technical field
• 6+ years of experience with developing quality systems for low volume, high complex manufacturing environments and suppliers. Working knowledge of AS9100/ AS6500 / ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience with IPC standards and general workmanship standards.
• Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements commonly applied to quality requirements for aerial vehicles. Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks/NX, Jira, Foundry, and manufacturing execution

US Salary Range

$127,000 — $170,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .