Quality Compliance Engineer

Anduril • Fort Collins, CO

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About The Position

Anduril’s Quality organization is seeking a Quality Compliance Engineer to own and advance the quality management system (QMS) for Battlespace Awareness (BA). The role supports continuous improvement of BA’s certified ISO 9001 system and its transition to AS9100, while harmonizing it with Anduril’s enterprise QMS. The engineer will serve as a primary point of contact for auditors, customers, and the production floor, balancing QMS ownership with hands-on product quality work such as supplier and special-process oversight, first article inspection, nonconforming material and MRB support, and field-escape investigations. The position may suit someone seeking to grow toward Product Quality Engineering or someone with product quality experience who wants to deepen their systems expertise.

The role owns BA’s QMS processes, audits, certification activities, quality metrics, document and record controls, training, and improvement roadmap. It partners with Supply Chain, Supplier Quality, Product Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Operations, site leadership, and division leadership. The position also supports QMS readiness for new products and sites, including audits before manufacturing and production readiness reviews. Expected travel is 20% of the time. U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 4–7 years of experience in aerospace and/or defense manufacturing.
• Deep working knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing in a complex product environment, specifically AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015; equivalent depth in AS9110C, AS9120B, IATF 16949, or ISO 13485 will be considered.
• Trained AS9100D internal auditor, or able to complete certification within 90 days of hire.
• Demonstrated ownership of a corrective action system, beyond participation in individual investigations.
• Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, and other organizations involved in a company-wide audit.
• Knowledge of ERP, PLM, and BI systems, and ability to build quality reporting from them.
• Experience working with DCMA, DFARs, and other government and defense programs and requirements.
• Experience with ESD, FOD, and counterfeit programs, and working knowledge of tools such as GIDEP, FAR, and ASSIST.
• Strong ownership mindset and demonstrated ability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Proven track record of QMS implementation and success.
• U.S. Person status, required to access export-controlled data.
• Expected travel of 20% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Certification as an AS9100 lead auditor.
• One or more American Society for Quality certifications, such as CQE, CRE, CMQ/OE, or CQA.
• Product-side quality experience in first article inspection (AS9102), MRB, PFMEA, control plans, or field-failure investigation, or a clear interest in growing into product quality.
• Experience with low-volume, highly complex manufacturing.
• Experience harmonizing an acquired site’s QMS into a parent company’s system.

Responsibilities

• Own the BA quality management system and top-level processes, keeping procedures, work instructions, and records current, compliant, and in use.
• Serve as the primary QMS process owner supporting the designated management representative under AS9100D §5.3.
• Lead QMS planning, including quality objectives, risk and opportunity management, and the Management Review cycle; prepare inputs, run reviews, track outputs, and close actions.
• Own the internal audit program, including its schedule across the certification cycle, auditor qualification and scheduling, auditor independence, and verified closure of findings.
• Direct internal audit execution.
• Own the supplier and external provider audit program under AS9100D §8.4, including risk-based audit scheduling, qualification and requalification surveys, on-site and remote audits, and supplier corrective actions through verified closure.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Supplier Quality on supplier selection, approved supplier list maintenance, and performance escalation.
• Support first article inspection under AS9102, nonconforming material and MRB disposition, and field-escape investigations in partnership with Product Quality Engineering.
• Manage the registrar relationship and certification cycle, including surveillance and recertification scheduling, scope changes, and timely responses to nonconformities.
• Coordinate and participate in customer audits for government and private-company customers, and prepare responses.
• Define and own BA quality KPIs, report them monthly to site and division leadership, investigate adverse trends, and drive improvement actions.
• Build dashboards and reporting that make quality performance visible without manual assembly.
• Conduct recurring 6S and FOD audits on the production floor, including scoring, trend monitoring, and closing findings with Production and Operations.
• Maintain ESD and counterfeit-parts prevention programs under AS9100D §8.1.4 as part of production-floor audits.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action for internal findings from audits and customer visits.
• Own document and record control, including procedure hierarchy, revision control, approval routing, and retention under AS9100D §7.5.
• Develop and deliver QMS training packages and maintain training records with affected personnel’s managers.
• Partner with Product Quality and Manufacturing Engineers during new product development to prepare new products and sites to meet QMS requirements, develop capabilities, and conduct internal audits before manufacturing readiness review and production readiness review.
• Develop the internal QMS roadmap for tools and capabilities as the company scales, including harmonizing BA’s QMS with Anduril enterprise procedures.
• Identify and implement continuous-improvement opportunities benefiting the QMS and product quality.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed at the team or organizational level.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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