Senior Product Quality Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Hardware Engineering : Quality Engineering : Product Quality Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing AI-powered military systems. This Senior Product Quality Engineer role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of their RoadRunner product, driving product improvement through process development, incident reporting, and root cause analysis. The role involves working across the product lifecycle from concept to field use, managing product risk, and improving the Quality Management System. Experience in hardware quality, manufacturing, and product development methodologies is required, with a focus on defense or aerospace industries.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive product improvement for RoadRunner by implementing processes for data collection and incident reporting that will inform activities like detailed design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assembly, and the vehicle, itself.
  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. Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities for field and reliability issues. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
  4. Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable product experience for our customers.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field
  • Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in aerospace/defense or similar hardware.
  • Experience leading root cause corrective action (RCCA) efforts for complex problems and issues. Utilizing tools such as 8D, Lean six sigma, Fault tree analysis, and DMAIC methodologies.
  • Working knowledge of design review and quality management of PCBA, harnessing, avionics, systems integration, composites, propulsion systems, and lethality systems.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 5-7 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
  • Lean six sigma certification is preferred.
  • Experience with government contracts and mil standard or other regulatory requirements.
  • Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks, Jira, Foundry, NetSuite, or Oracle.

What the JD emphasized

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