Lead Product Quality Engineer - Edge Compute and Comms

Anduril Industries • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

As a Lead Product Quality Engineer, you will work inside & outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality & reliable products. This role focuses on our Edge Compute and Communications product portfolio with career growth opportunities as products develop. In this role, you will provide technical leadership to a team of Product Quality Engineers, ensuring consistency and rigor across critical processes including Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA), design reviews, Verification & Validation (V&V) testing, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). The right person for this role has proven technical leadership experience along with knowledge of manufacturing, product development, sub-system performance criteria, and issue management and continuous improvement of products and processes. If you are someone who loves to build world-class quality products, work hands-on, mentor engineers, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or similar technical field
• 7+ years of experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in aerospace/defense or similar complex hardware environments, including Edge Compute, Communications, or electronics products.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including mentoring, guiding, or leading a team of engineers (3-5 PQEs preferred) to ensure consistency and rigor across quality processes.
• Proven 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.
• Strong working knowledge of design review and quality management of PCBA, harnessing, machined & sheet metal components, and weldment structures.
• Strong working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Verification & Validation (V&V) testing, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements including 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 and teams from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experience with data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, and statistical analysis tools (MATLAB, JMP, Minitab, etc.).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment on quality standards.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a technical field
• 10+ 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, Siemens NX, Jira, Foundry, Oracle, or Odoo.

Responsibilities

• Drive product improvement 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, and sub assemblies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable product experience for our customers.
• 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.
• Ensure the execution of product and process requirements. Define and improve such requirements.
• Work cross-functionally to define and execute the product roadmap.
• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities. Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict quality performance.
• Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System. Define and improve required documentation and activities.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organization level.
• Develop and implement manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans per category of component (castings, forgings, machined parts, electromechanical systems).
• Cross functional leadership through design, manufacturing, quality, and reliability engineering to analyze process capability potential from the early design phase and direct design decisions based on data.
• Lead and conduct DOE’s (Design Of Experiments) to support design and process improvements.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior