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Salary: USD 126,000 - 167,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company develops AI-powered systems like Lattice OS that integrate thousands of data streams into real-time 3D command and control centers, bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking to military applications.
As a Senior Product Quality Engineer, you will define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high-quality and reliable products for Anduril's Expeditionary Systems (AES) product portfolio, including systems like Menace-I and TITAN. This role combines hands-on quality engineering with cross-functional leadership across design, manufacturing, quality, and reliability teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drive product improvement by implementing data collection and incident reporting processes that inform design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification activities
- Resolve development ambiguities related to product maturity, process stability, and field performance to ensure products meet quality and reliability goals for volume production
- Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities for field and reliability issues, sharing lessons learned across product teams
- Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to sustainable, predictable customer experiences
- Own elimination of product risk across the entire product lifecycle, from concept through development, manufacturing, and field use
- Define and improve product and process requirements, ensuring their execution
- Work cross-functionally to define and execute the product roadmap
- Lead product health data analysis and establish metrics for measuring quality performance and predictive factors
- Support continuous improvement of the Quality Management System through documentation and process enhancements
- Develop and implement manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans for different component categories (castings, forgings, machined parts, electromechanical systems)
- Analyze process capability potential from early design phases and direct design decisions based on data
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or similar technical field
- 7+ years of experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in aerospace/defense or similar complex hardware environments (Edge Compute, Communications, or electronics products)
- Proven experience leading root cause corrective action (RCCA) efforts for complex problems using tools such as 8D, Lean Six Sigma, Fault Tree Analysis, and DMAIC methodologies
- Strong working knowledge of design review and quality management of PCBA, harnessing, machined & sheet metal components, and weldment structures
- Strong working knowledge of product development methodologies including FMEA, Verification & Validation (V&V) testing, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements including Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Proven experience creating and managing a Program Quality Management Plan (QMP)
- Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes
- Strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects and teams from start to completion
- Analytical skills and experience with data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, and statistical analysis tools (MATLAB, JMP, Minitab, etc.)
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management and Document Control
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment on quality standards
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's degree in a technical field
- 10+ years of experience developing quality systems for low volume, high complexity manufacturing environments and suppliers
- Experience working under DoD Program of Records (PoR) requirements
- Working knowledge of AS9100/ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements
- Experience with weldments and driving weld requirements
- Experience with IPC standards
- Lean Six Sigma certification
- Experience with government contracts and mil standard or other regulatory requirements
- Experience with Teamcenter, Siemens NX, Jira, Foundry, Oracle, or Odoo
