Supply Chain Architect

Infleqtion; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 155,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Health Savings Account

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Life and AD&D insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Paid FMLA, Maternity/Paternity Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Student Loan Repayment

Equity Program

Job summary

Infleqtion seeks a Senior Supplier Quality Leader to strengthen our hardware and manufacturing quality programs in the U.S. You'll qualify, audit, and monitor suppliers to ensure quality-system capability, delivery, and risk management across defense-grade projects.

The role requires extensive experience with ISO 9001/AS9100, DFARS, FAR Part 46, and CAPA processes. You will collaborate with procurement, engineering, and manufacturing to sustain program success and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, manufacturing, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of supplier quality, quality engineering, manufacturing quality, or supplier-development experience.
• Experience supporting Government or defense contracts and working with contract quality requirements under FAR Part 46; DFARS experience preferred where applicable.
• Demonstrated ability to qualify, assess, and monitor suppliers based on quality-system capability, technical competence, capacity, delivery performance, and risk.
• Experience conducting supplier audits, including quality-management-system, process, product, and special-process audits.
• Working knowledge of quality-management systems such as ISO 9001, AS9100, or other standards relevant to the organization’s industry.
• Proficiency interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, inspection plans, test requirements, and configuration-control requirements.
• Experience with nonconformance management, material review, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action (CAPA), and supplier corrective action requests (SCARs).
• Ability to develop and review quality plans, first-article inspection packages, inspection/test records, certificates of conformance, and traceability documentation.
• Experience applying quality tools such as 5 Why, fishbone analysis, FMEA, control plans, process capability, statistical process control, and risk-based thinking.
• Strong documentation discipline and ability to maintain objective quality evidence that is complete, accurate, traceable, and ready for customer or Government review.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with suppliers, procurement, engineering, manufacturing, program management, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Qualify, assess, and monitor suppliers based on quality-system capability, technical competence, capacity, delivery performance, and risk.
• Conduct supplier audits including quality-management-system, process, product, and special-process audits.
• Develop quality plans, first-article inspection packages, and certificates of conformance.
• Maintain traceability documentation and records for customer or Government review.
• Collaborate with suppliers, procurement, engineering, and manufacturing to sustain program success.

Skills

Supplier quality management

Quality engineering

DFARS experience

ISO 9001

AS9100

Supplier audits

Nonconformance management

CAPA

Root-cause analysis

Documentation discipline

Collaboration with suppliers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, manufacturing, or related field

Tools

ERP

QMS software

Job description

Infleqtion is on a mission to commercialize atom-based quantum technologies that deliver orders-of-magnitude improvements in sensing and computing applications. As a deep-tech startup, we embrace a results-driven, fast-paced, and customer-focused approach to innovation.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, manufacturing, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience considered.
• 8+ years of supplier quality, quality engineering, manufacturing quality, or supplier-development experience.
• Experience supporting Government or defense contracts and working with contract quality requirements under FAR Part 46; DFARS experience preferred where applicable.
• Demonstrated ability to qualify, assess, and monitor suppliers based on quality-system capability, technical competence, capacity, delivery performance, and risk.
• Experience conducting supplier audits, including quality-management-system, process, product, and special-process audits.
• Working knowledge of quality-management systems such as ISO 9001, AS9100, or other standards relevant to the organization’s industry.
• Proficiency interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, inspection plans, test requirements, and configuration-control requirements.
• Experience with nonconformance management, material review, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action (CAPA), and supplier corrective action requests (SCARs).
• Ability to develop and review quality plans, first-article inspection packages, inspection/test records, certificates of conformance, and traceability documentation.
• Experience applying quality tools such as 5 Why, fishbone analysis, FMEA, control plans, process capability, statistical process control, and risk-based thinking.
• Strong documentation discipline and ability to maintain objective quality evidence that is complete, accurate, traceable, and ready for customer or Government review.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with suppliers, procurement, engineering, manufacturing, program management, and customers.

Preferred qualifications

• ASQ certification, such as Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP), or Certified Quality Auditor (CQA).
• Experience with DCMA, source inspection, Government quality assurance surveillance, customer audits, or audit-response activities.
• Experience with counterfeit-part prevention, product traceability, lot control, serialization, and supplier flowdown requirements.
• Familiarity with first article inspection requirements, including AS9102.
• Knowledge of ERP, quality-management-system, and supplier-performance-management tools.

• Salary Range: per year 155000-185000
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, short/long-term disability
• Employer-funded Health Savings Account
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match
• Company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Savings Account
• Paid FMLA, Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Student Loan Repayment
• Equity Program