Product Quality Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

17d

About The Position

As a Product Quality Engineer at Anduril, you will work within and outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high-quality missile programs. The role emphasizes early collaboration with design teams and partners to meet quality requirements and evaluate product health and performance. You will work hands-on with engineering and be accountable for results of a small team. The position is based in Costa Mesa, California, with an anticipated move to Long Beach, California, beginning in late 2027.

You will drive product development and production quality across missile programs, from design and work-instruction reviews through planning, inspection, testing, verification, validation, and qualification. The role owns product risk and quality improvement across the lifecycle, leads root-cause and corrective-action and material-review activities, and supports the transition from new product introduction to stable, high-rate manufacturing. It also includes defining quality metrics and plans, improving the Quality Management System, setting qualification expectations for internal and external processes, and coordinating supplier quality engineering support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a similar technical field.
• Experience in engineering, manufacturing, or quality for previous missile or high-velocity vehicle systems.
• Working knowledge of design review and quality management for missile systems, PCBA, harnessing, avionics, systems integration, composites/control surfaces, propulsion systems, and lethality systems.
• Experience driving product quality and performance requirements into test and measurement-system development and optimization.
• Knowledge of missile storage and maintenance processes.
• Experience partnering with Reliability Engineering, chief engineers, architects, manufacturing engineering, and customer-facing team members to deliver to customer requirements.
• Working knowledge of product-development methodologies including FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements such as MSA, and GD&T.
• Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes.
• Application of industry standards and best practices.
• Strong ownership mindset and demonstrated ability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experience in data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue-management systems, and statistical analysis tools such as MatLab, JMP, or MiniTab.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a technical field.
• Four or more years of experience developing quality systems for low-volume, highly complex manufacturing environments and suppliers.
• Working knowledge of AS9100, AS6500, or ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience with IPC standards and general workmanship standards.
• Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements commonly applied to aerial-vehicle quality requirements.
• Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks/NX, Jira, Foundry, and manufacturing execution systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive product development and production quality for missile programs through drawing and work-instruction reviews, quality planning, inspection, acceptance-test performance management, end-of-line metrics, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, subassemblies, and vehicles.
• Resolve production ambiguities related to product maturity, process stability, and field performance.
• Lead the transition from new product introduction to sustainable and predictable high-rate manufacturing, supply chain, and deployment support.
• Eliminate product risk and improve reliability across the product lifecycle.
• Ensure product and process requirements are executed; define and improve those requirements.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA), Material Review Board (MRB) activities, and inspection-process performance; review action effectiveness and share lessons learned.
• Lead product-health data analysis and improvement activities; establish metrics that measure quality and predict quality performance.
• Support continual improvement of the Quality Management System and define required documentation and activities.
• Develop an overall quality plan, similar to APQP, for missile projects.
• Leverage resources and direct reports to deliver quality through the development cycle.
• Use elements of the Anduril Quality Management System to build confidence and containment for missile customers' quality expectations.
• Set qualification expectations for internal and external manufacturing processes, including measurement methods, PPAP/FAI, inspection methods, test protocols, and acceptance-test plans.
• Lead the transition from engineering qualification to manufacturing variance testing for product quality coverage.
• Matrix-lead supplier quality engineers supporting design and development activities with suppliers for missile programs.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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