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Salary: USD 39 - 60 / hourly
Neros Technologies is a defense technology company rebuilding America's drone industrial base, designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems tested in combat and built at startup speed. The company is scaling toward a million drones per year and seeks an embedded quality resource for the production line.
As a Quality Specialist, you will blend inspection expertise with engineering judgment and authority. You will perform first article, in-process, and final inspections on mechanical, electrical, and PCBA assemblies against drawings, specifications, and workmanship standards. You will measure and verify parts and assemblies using precision tools (calipers, micrometers, height and pin gauges, optical comparators, vision systems) and interpret GD&T on engineering drawings.
You will triage non-conforming product on the line, contain and document defects, and lead MRB disposition with engineering and production teams. You will write and maintain inspection plans, verification criteria, checklists, and quality work instructions for new and existing products. You will support NPI through design and process reviews, PFMEA, and control plan development, establishing inspection points before product enters rate production.
You will monitor quality data (yield, defect Pareto, escapes, SPC) and flag trends before they become line-down events or field failures. You will own calibration of inspection and measurement equipment and maintain quality records and traceability. You will train operators and technicians on inspection criteria, workmanship standards, and quality procedures, and support internal and customer audits.
This role requires hands-on expertise with engineering judgment and authority—you inspect to drawings and procedures but also write the inspection plans; you verify production builds but also define how new products get inspected before anyone has built them.
**Requirements:**
- High school diploma or equivalency
- 5+ years of hands-on quality inspection or quality engineering experience in a manufacturing production environment
- Ability to read and work from engineering drawings, work instructions, and controlled documentation, including GD&T
- Proficiency with precision measurement tools and inspection methods
- Experience documenting nonconformances and driving root cause and corrective action
- Experience with MES/ERP quality modules, NCR systems, and electronic records
- Proficiency in SQL, including querying production databases to pull quality metrics and build dashboards
**Nice to have:**
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering, math, or science discipline
- Electronics inspection certification (IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001) or cable and harness inspection certification (IPC/WHMA-A-620)
- Experience in an AS9100 or ISO 9001 quality management system, ideally in aerospace or defense manufacturing
- CMM programming (PC-DMIS, Calypso) or automated vision inspection experience
- SPC and process capability (Cpk) analysis
- PCBA/SMT inspection experience: AOI, X-ray, solder joint evaluation
