Senior Quality Engineer Electro-Mechanical Assembly
About The Position
Neros is a defense technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance unmanned systems. The Senior Quality Engineer will own electro-mechanical build quality across the factory as production scales, covering components and sub-assemblies such as motors, harnesses, and mechanisms through final vehicle assembly. This hands-on technical authority will respond to assembly and integration issues, partner with manufacturing and engineering to contain defects and identify root causes, and help ensure units perform reliably in contested environments. The role leads electro-mechanical quality response and improvement, establishes metrics and inspection strategies, drives design for quality during new product introduction and design changes, and owns factory measurement, calibration, and workmanship certification programs. It also includes mentoring quality engineers and technicians as the team and production scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, or aerospace engineering.
- At least 5 years in a quality, manufacturing, reliability, or design engineering role supporting electro-mechanical hardware production.
- Experience with GD&T and hands-on metrology, including calipers, height gauges, CMM, and visual inspection.
- Experience with electro-mechanical assembly processes, including fastening and torque control, thread locking, connector mating, harness routing and strain relief, potting and staking, and adhesive bonding, and knowledge of their common defect modes.
- Track record leading root cause and corrective action to closure on production lines using structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone, as well as PFMEA, control plans, FAI (AS9102 or similar), and SPC.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, including building queries, dashboards, or tools used by others to track production quality.
Nice To Haves
- Experience scaling high-volume production of electro-mechanical systems through a ramp or new factory stand-up.
- Experience leading MRB for electro-mechanical hardware.
- Strong working knowledge of IPC/WHMA-A-620 as it applies to cable, harness, and connector workmanship.
- Experience building or managing a measurement and calibration program.
- Familiarity with brushless motors, including bearings, balancing, winding and lead termination, and common failure modes.
- Understanding of vibration, shock, and thermal effects on assembled hardware and how to design inspections and screens around them.
- Comfort using multimeters, power supplies, and basic motor and continuity testing on the bench.
- Familiarity with composites, machining, injection molding, and additive manufacturing processes and their common defect modes.
- Experience with ISO 9001 or AS9100 quality systems in a defense or aerospace environment.
- Experience mentoring engineers or technicians.
- Familiarity with drones, RC aircraft, or FPV hardware.
Responsibilities
- Own electro-mechanical quality across the factory, including workmanship and acceptance of components, sub-assemblies, and final vehicle assembly.
- Respond to quality issues on the production line by dispositioning defects, containing suspect product, and driving nonconformances through MRB to closure.
- Lead MRB for electro-mechanical nonconformances and containment of high-impact escapes.
- Lead root cause investigations with engineering and verify that corrective fixes hold on the production line.
- Define electro-mechanical quality metrics and SPC strategy, and work with software teams to implement them in production systems and dashboards.
- Run build quality reviews with production and engineering leadership and set priorities based on risk and impact.
- Set inspection and test strategies for electro-mechanical assembly, including inspection, sampling, error-proofing, and removal of inspection as processes demonstrate capability.
- Drive design for quality during new product introduction and design changes, incorporating production line data and lessons learned into components and assemblies.
- Own the factory measurement and calibration program, including gauges, torque tools, and Gage R&R.
- Own the workmanship certification program, including audits and compliance.
- Mentor quality engineers and technicians and help build the quality team as production scales.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
