Staff Product Quality Engineer

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid time off

Retirement plans

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Product Quality Engineer in Costa Mesa, California, to lead quality activities for electro-mechanical actuators. In this role, you will manage a team and interface closely with product engineering, manufacturing engineering, and supplier quality teams to ensure high-quality and reliable products.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and expertise in mechanical design, product development, and quality management. A competitive salary range of $166,000—$220,000 USD and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in Mechanical Engineering designs and product launches.
• Proven expertise in DFMEA’s & PFMEA’s for managing design and process risks.
• Strong ability to drive projects from start to completion.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of product quality engineers and collaborate with various departments.
• Drive product development to ensure quality and reliability.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities.

Skills

Mechanical design

Product development

Quality management

Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Data analysis skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

MatLab

JMP

MiniTab

Job description

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.

Staff Product Quality Engineer

As the Staff Product Quality Engineer for actuators, you will lead all aspects of the actuators quality activities and team to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality & reliable products. This role focuses on our Core Technology products specifically in electro‑mechanical actuators with career growth to any of our products in the development stages. The right person for this role is a team leader and a technical leader who has expertise in mechanical design, design for robustness, design for manufacturability, product development, metrology (GD&T), and continuous improvement. If you are someone who loves to build world‑class quality products, work hands‑on, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Manage a team of product quality engineers and interface closely with product engineering, manufacturing engineering, production team and supplier quality team.
• Drive product development to achieve quality experience for the actuators by leading technical design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, and the assembly itself.
• Drive clarity & resolution for development ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance that impact the product meeting it’s quality & reliability goals for volume production.
• Drive quality controls and assurance throughout production phases; develop metrics to uphold the highest level of first pass yield and continuous scrap reduction.
• Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable, high rate manufacturing process and supply chain.
• Own product design risk management to ensure robustness and to improve reliability across the product lifecycle. Engage in quality activities from concept through development and manufacturing to field use.
• Own product quality end-to-end from incoming components, subsystems, and the end‑product assembly from early design phase to field sustainment.
• Ensure the execution of product and process requirements. Define and improve such requirements.
• Work cross‑functionally to define and execute the product roadmap from quality perspective.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
• Establish metrics quality metrics and develop a strategy to ensure best in class quality performance.
• Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System. Define and improve required documentation and activities.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organization level.
• Responsible for root cause analysis and associated characterization/sensitivity test development.
• Support supplier quality visits to the supply base to consistently improve process quality and drive down cost of poor quality.
• Develop and implement manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans per category of component (castings, forgings, machined parts, electromechanical systems). Cross functional leadership through design, manufacturing, quality, and reliability engineering to analyze process capability potential from the early design phase and direct design decisions based on data.
• Lead and conduct DOE’s (Design Of Experiments) to support design and process improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field
• Experience in Mechanical Engineering designs, Product development, product launches, manufacturing engineering and Quality in automotives, aerospace/defense or similar electro‑mechanical hardware systems.
• Expertise in technical design review and quality management of PCBA, avionics, systems integration, and mechanical systems.
• Experience DFMEA’s & PFMEA’s for new products to define and manage design and process risks while identifying robustness actions.
• Expertise in SPC (Statistical Process Control), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), and other statistical aspects of the design and manufacturing of mechanical components.
• Expertise in mechanical and/or electro‑mechanical systems manufacturing processes.
• 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
• 7-10 years of experience in design, development, manufacturing and quality systems for low volume, high complexity manufacturing environments and suppliers.
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• DFSS experience
• Design for Robustness & Reliability
• Reliability Engineering and testing
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience with IPC standards
• Experience with government contracts and mil standard requirements
• Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks, Jira, Tableau, and Altium (or other PCBA and harness design software)
• Experience working with actuators

US Salary Range

$166,000—$220,000 USD

Benefits

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: healthcare, paid time off, retirement plans, and other employee assistance programs.