Senior Technical Program Manager, Quality & Cost of Quality

Anduril Industries; Asheville (NC); On-site; USD 143,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior Quality Programs professional in the United States to lead cost-of-quality initiatives for our Air Dominance and Strike Divison. You will quantify defects, track root causes, and tie quality outcomes to cost and schedule, driving measurable improvements across engineering, production, and supply chain.

The role emphasizes strong manufacturing knowledge, government-oversight interaction, and advanced data analytics to optimize cost, quality, and delivery on

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical program management or quality roles in complex hardware production environments.
• Experience building quality systems and COPQ frameworks from scratch, not just maintenance.
• Experience driving cross-functional resolution of quality issues spanning engineering, production, and supply chain.
• Technical depth in manufacturing processes sufficient to challenge root cause analysis and validate corrective actions.
• Experience interfacing with government quality oversight (DCMA or equivalent).
• Comfortable building or interpreting quantitative models to inform quality and cost decisions.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and own mechanisms that connect incoming quality, in-process defects, root cause, and cost impact into a closed loop that drives decisions.
• Own cost-of-quality trending, closed-loop resolution rate, and continuous improvement velocity measured in cost and cycle time.
• Drive cross-team resolution across quality engineering, production, supply chain, and design when quality issues emerge.
• Own schedule and financial performance of every quality-driven decision on the program.
• Build KPIs that connect operational quality metrics to program-level cost, schedule, and delivery outcomes.
• Drive qualification decisions with cost and schedule data, ensuring quality gates accelerate production rather than bottleneck it.
• Leverage quantitative models (statistical process control, classification, causal analysis, predictive defect modeling) to identify patterns before they become systemic.
• Prepare technical documentation, analysis reports, and briefings for internal teams, customers, and government stakeholders.
• Maintain reproducible analysis pipelines using version control, scripting, and scalable workflows.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Quality engineering

Data modeling

Version control

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior Quality Programs professional in the United States to lead cost-of-quality initiatives for our Air Dominance and Strike Divison. You will quantify defects, track root causes, and tie quality outcomes to cost and schedule, driving measurable improvements across engineering, production, and supply chain.

The role emphasizes strong manufacturing knowledge, government-oversight interaction, and advanced data analytics to optimize cost, quality, and delivery on