Senior Quality System Engineer

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

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Quality System Engineer to develop and manage their internal quality management system (QMS) and digitization efforts. This role involves implementing QMS software, ensuring compliance with standards like ISO 9001, supporting internal manufacturing and supplier sites, and driving continuous improvement. The position requires expertise in QMS requirements, auditing, data analysis, and project management for system implementation, with a focus on supporting the company's growth and the deployment of advanced technologies including AI and computer vision.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS and its top-level processes. Coordinate resources and prioritization of tasks to complete internal and external audits of the QMS.
  2. Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS software implementation and adoption across our Anduril sites. Coordinate resources and prioritization of tasks to complete implementation, internal and external audits of the QMS.
  3. Partner with business system team, product quality engineers and manufacturing engineers to help prepare new processes, digital tools, & sites to meet QMS requirements, develop new capabilities to meet existing QMS requirements and conduct internal audit before manufacturing readiness review and production readiness review.
  4. Develop our internal QMS road map for tools and capabilities to match the scaling of the company: to meet customer needs, to enable quality capabilities for our new products, and scale quality processes as we grow the company.
  5. Become a systems expert for Anduril’s quality tool, processes, and data sets to enable effective QMS execution.

Skills

Required

  • Expert knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing
  • Working knowledge with QMS software solutions
  • Hands on experience with data analytics platforms, reporting tools, and basic data visualization
  • Demonstrated project management for software system implementation and onboarding suppliers (external users) and internal users
  • Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, and other organizations that are apart of a company wide audit
  • Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Business Intelligence (BI) systems
  • Strong ownership mindset
  • Demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion
  • Proven track record of implementation and success with QMS
  • Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of experience in aerospace and/or defense manufacturing
  • U.S. Person status

Nice to have

  • Certification as an AS9100 aerospace auditor / lead auditor certification
  • One or more American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications: CQE, CRE, CMQ/OE, CQA
  • Experience with low volume, high complex manufacturing
  • Experience working with mergers and acquisition and onboarding teams and managing/supporting remote site QMS

What the JD emphasized

  • QMS requirements
  • auditing
  • QMS software implementation
  • quality management system
  • internal audits
  • external audits
  • customer audits
  • internal auditor process
  • continuous improvement opportunities
  • root cause analysis
  • corrective action
  • QMS standards
  • ISO 9001:2015
  • AS9100D
  • AS9110C
  • AS9120B
  • AS6500
  • IATF 16949:2016
  • ISO 13485:2016
  • TL 9000 R6.3
  • QMS software solutions
  • data analytics platforms
  • project management for software system implementation
  • onboarding suppliers
  • internal users
  • design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts
  • company wide audit
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Business Intelligence (BI) systems
  • Proven track record of implementation and success with QMS.