Senior Product Quality Engineer - Defense Hardware/Software

Andurilindustries; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer to shape quality processes for Tower/Sentry products across development, manufacturing, and field deployment. You will lead RCCA/MRB efforts and own product health data analysis to drive reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in engineering, experience with hardware/software products, and the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance. You will work on high‑tech defense systems, with emphasis on quality management and process

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field.
• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in an integrated hardware and software product.
• Knowledge of PCBA, harnessing, mechanical structures, systems integration, power systems, radar, vision system/optical image capture, networking/communication protocol, and remote management systems.
• Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measure system development and optimization.
• Knowledge of FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements such as MSA and GD&T.
• Knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes.
• Ability to read technical drawings, requirements, Quality Clauses, and SOWs.
• Knowledge of Configuration Management and Document Control.
• Strong ownership mindset to drive projects end-to-end.
• Experience with data mining and metrics generation; statistical analysis.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Drive product development to achieve quality experience for Sentry products and variants; implement detailed design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts.
• Clarify and resolve development ambiguities related to product maturity, process stability, and field performance to meet quality goals for volume production.
• Maintain quality performance in a low-rate, high-complexity manufacturing environment and supply chains.
• Own elimination of product risk to improve reliability across lifecycle; engage from concept to field use.
• Ensure execution of product and process requirements; define and improve them.
• Lead RCCA and MRB activities; review effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned.
• Lead product health data analysis; establish metrics for quality and drive performance when out of spec.
• Support continuous improvement of the Quality Management System; define required documentation and activities.
• Support investigations and projects at team or organizational level.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data mining

Data quality

Metrics generation

Statistical analysis

Security clearance

Quality assurance

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field

Master’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Teamcenter

SolidWorks

Jira

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer to shape quality processes for Tower/Sentry products across development, manufacturing, and field deployment. You will lead RCCA/MRB efforts and own product health data analysis to drive reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in engineering, experience with hardware/software products, and the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance. You will work on high‑tech defense systems, with emphasis on quality management and process