Product Quality Engineer, Sentry

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Irvine, CA · Hardware Engineering : Quality Engineering : Product Quality Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops AI-powered systems for military applications. This Product Quality Engineer role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of their Sentry products, which are part of an AI-powered operating system. The role involves driving product development, implementing quality processes, leading root cause analysis, and analyzing product health data throughout the product lifecycle, from concept to field use. Experience with manufacturing, product development, and quality management systems is required, with a focus on hardware components like PCBA, mechanical structures, and systems integration. The role also requires experience with product development methodologies such as FMEA and APQP, and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive product development to achieve quality experience for Sentry products and variants by implementing product making engineering activities like detailed design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assy, and system deployments
  2. 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.
  3. Drive ongoing quality performance in a sustainable & predictable manner for a low rate, high complexity manufacturing process and supply chains.
  4. Own the elimination of product risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle. Engage in quality activities from concept through development and manufacturing to field use.
  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 in surveillance/defense or similar hardware.
  • Working knowledge of design review and quality management of PCBA, harnessing, mechanical structures, systems integration, power systems, radar, vision system/optical image capture, networking/communication protocol, and remote management systems.
  • Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measurement system development and optimization. Leading the transition from engineering qualification to manufacturing variance testing for product quality coverage.
  • 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.
  • Ability to read technical drawings, requirements, Quality Clauses, and SOWs
  • Working knowledge of Configuration Management and Document Control
  • 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
  • 3-5 years of experience with developing quality systems for low volume, high complex manufacturing environments and suppliers.
  • Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
  • Experience with IPC standards, mastery of ESD and FOD prevention and mitigation,
  • Experience with government contracts and mil standard requirements
  • Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks, Jira, and Tableau

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance