Product Quality Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Atlanta, GA · Hardware Engineering : Quality : Quality Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing AI-powered military systems. This Product Quality Engineer role focuses on ensuring high-quality products and programs by collaborating with design teams, defining and executing quality processes, and evaluating product health and performance. The role involves driving product development and production, managing quality planning, inspection, acceptance testing, and leading root cause analysis. It requires experience in engineering, manufacturing, or quality, with knowledge of product development methodologies and a strong ownership mindset. The company's systems are powered by an AI-powered operating system, and the role touches on AI, computer vision, and sensor fusion within the defense domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive product development and production for product programs using processes such as drawing and work instruction reviews, quality planning, inspection, acceptance test performance management, end-of-line metrics, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assemblies, and the vehicle, itself.
  2. Drive clarity & resolution for production ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance.
  3. Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable, high rate manufacturing process, supply chain, and deployment support.
  4. Own the elimination of product risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle.
  5. Ensure the execution of product and process requirements. Define and improve such requirements.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field
  • Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality on previous Missiles or high velocity vehicle systems.
  • Working knowledge of design review and quality management of missile systems, PCBA, harnessing, avionics, systems integration, composites/control surfaces, propulsion systems, and lethality systems.
  • Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measurement system development and optimization.
  • Knowledgeable of missile storage and maintenance processes.
  • Experience partnering with Reliability Engineering, chief engineers, architects, manufacturing engineering, and customer facing team members to deliver to customer requirements.
  • Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements such as Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
  • Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes.
  • Application of industry standards and best practices
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in a technical field
  • 5+ years of experience with developing quality systems for low volume, high complex manufacturing environments and suppliers.
  • Working knowledge of AS9100/ AS6500 / ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
  • Experience with IPC standards and general workmanship standards.
  • Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements commonly applied to quality requirements for aerial vehicles.
  • Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks/NX, Jira, Foundry, and manufacturing execution

What the JD emphasized

  • high quality products
  • quality requirements
  • product health & performance
  • quality processes
  • product quality
  • quality planning
  • quality processes
  • quality management
  • quality plan
  • quality expectations
  • product quality coverage
  • product health data analysis
  • quality
  • quality management
  • quality requirements