Senior Quality Systems Engineer

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

This role is for a Senior Quality Systems Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The primary focus is on developing, implementing, and managing the company's Quality Management System (QMS) and its associated software applications across various sites. The role involves ensuring product reliability, meeting mission requirements, and driving continuous improvement within the quality processes. While the company utilizes AI and advanced technologies, this specific role is centered on quality systems engineering and not direct AI/ML development.

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 in a complex product environment, in one or more of the following QMS standards: ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D, AS9110C, AS9120B, AS6500, IATF 16949:2016, ISO 13485:2016, TL 9000 R6.3.
  • Working knowledge with QMS software solutions which might include Net Inspect, Siemens, SAP, ETQ, One Factory, MasterControl, Compliance Quest, Hexagon, PTC, QT9
  • 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.
  • A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.
  • Proven track record of implementation and success with QMS.
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

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

  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.