Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

20h

About The Position

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer leads collaboration across internal and external cross-functional teams to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high-quality, reliable hardware assemblies and sub-assemblies across Anduril’s product portfolio. The role partners with design teams and suppliers to meet quality requirements, with a focus on manufacturing, supply management, supplier development, subsystem performance criteria, metrology, and continuous improvement.

The engineer supports product development and production by providing design-for-manufacturability feedback, assessing supplier capabilities, managing technical risks, and advancing supplier quality from prototyping through production. The position also drives supplier qualification, performance improvement, risk reduction, corrective actions, audits, and compliance with customer flow-down requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, or a similar technical field.
• Experience in manufacturing environments across one or more hardware commodity areas, such as machined parts, fabrications, electromechanical assemblies, castings or forgings, PCBAs, or cable/harness.
• Experience scaling supplier capabilities and quality from prototype and proof-of-concept parts through low-rate and high-rate production.
• Experience flowing down source control requirements to suppliers.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to the AS9102 industry standard and ensuring suppliers have capable control plans and inspection processes.
• Experience driving supplier performance and evaluation.
• Experience with Statements of Work (SOW), quality clauses, intellectual property (IP), and government regulations such as ITAR.
• Working knowledge of product development methodologies including FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements such as MSA, quality improvement techniques, and GD&T.
• Strong ownership mindset and demonstrated ability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experience with 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.
• Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time to suppliers, sourcing partners, and manufacturing locations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience performing source inspection at manufacturing suppliers, particularly in aerospace and defense.
• AS9100 Lead/Internal Auditor Certification or equivalent.
• Master's degree in a technical field.
• Experience creating material and process specifications across multiple hardware commodity areas.
• Working knowledge of applying non-destructive inspection techniques throughout a process development lifecycle.
• Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) experience, developing source inspection plans, and qualifying inspection process capabilities.
• Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements.
• Experience with Teamcenter, NX, Oracle/NetSuite, Jira, and Foundry.

Responsibilities

• Partner with design teams during product development, provide design-for-manufacturability feedback, and help create product data such as drawing details, BOM information, and part requirements.
• Apply manufacturing knowledge across machining, fabrication, electromechanical assembly, special processes, and inspection and measurement to support design and ideation.
• Lead management of technical risks, proof of concepts, prototyping, and scaling designs for production.
• Drive supplier quality development throughout product development with product engineering, including design reviews, supplier process development, testing, and qualification of components and sub-assemblies.
• Review supplier processes and capabilities to confirm they can meet product requirements.
• Partner with development engineering, product quality engineering, sourcing engineering, category management, and program management to support predictable supply and manage supplier technical-performance exceptions, containments, and deviations.
• Analyze drawing and supplier-specification key and critical characteristics, develop measurement systems, and lead supplier qualification activities such as PPAP, FAIR, audits, and inspection development.
• Partner with Global Strategic Sourcing and Product Sourcing Engineering to improve supplier cost, quality, delivery, and fulfillment of strategic goals.
• Eliminate supplier risk and improve quality and reliability across the product lifecycle.
• Use audits, readiness reviews, training, and documentation to ensure compliance.
• Support Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities, own containments derived from purchased goods, and review supplier corrective actions for effectiveness.
• Drive the supplier corrective action and response (SCAR) process and share lessons learned across the product team.
• Audit supplier Quality Management Systems as they relate to supplier quality and performance.
• Define and improve documentation and activities needed to meet customer flow-down requirements.
• Prepare, support, and lead supplier onsite audits and reviews of contract deliverables for quality management and compliance.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• 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: Senior