As a Principal Lead Product Quality Engineer, you will build a small team of product quality engineers who will work inside & outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality missile programs. This is a long term investment for the future of Anduril’s missile programs and customer base. You will lead by example as well as bring your experience and insight for growth and development of this critical role for the programs. This role focuses on collaborating and driving early engagement with our design teams and partner to meet our quality requirements the first time and to evaluate the product health & performance. The right person for this role has knowledge of missile product performance, manufacturing, supply management, sub-system performance criteria, metrology, and continuous improvement. If you are someone who loves to build world-class quality processes and missile products, work hands-on with engineering, and be accountable for results of a small team, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Grow, develop, and lead a team of product quality engineers who will develop and deliver the quality performance for missile products including guidance systems, flight systems, propulsion systems, energetics, actuators, control surfaces and structures, etc.
• Lead the partnership with our design teams to support the design development process, provide quality assurance, process improvements, risk assessment/management, strategies for verifying, validating, and qualifying capabilities, and identification of industry standard to help deliver our missile designs.
• Work cross-functionally to define and execute the product roadmap.
• Systematically, drive the product quality processes throughout the product development stages with the product engineering teams through design reviews, development builds, and release to production.
• Develop an overall quality plan (similar to APQP) for various missile projects. Leverage resources and direct reports to delivery quality through the development cycle. Design, development, and leverage elements of the Anduril QMS to build confidence and containment for missile customers quality expectations. Set expectations for qualification of internal and external manufacturing processes including measurement methods, PPAP/FAI, inspection methods & test protocol & acceptance test plans for missile programs. Lead the transition from engineering qualification to manufacturing variance testing for product quality coverage.
• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities for the missile projects.
• Matrix lead supplier quality engineers who are supporting the design and development activities with the suppliers for Missile programs.
• Lead the Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) process, incident management system (Jira) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities for the missile programs, while owning containments for prototype builds and production.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field
• Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in Missiles or high velocity systems.  Experience in growing and developing teams and managing resources.
• Working knowledge of design review and quality management of missile systems, PCBA, harnessing, avionics, systems integration, composites/control surfaces, propulsion systems, and lethality systems.
• Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measurement system development and optimization.  Knowledgeable of missile storage and maintenance processes.
• Experience partnering with Reliability Engineering, chief engineers, architects, and customer facing team members to deliver to customer requirements.
• Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements such as Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes.  Application of industry standards and best practices
• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experiences for data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, and statistical analysis tools (MatLab, JMP, MiniTab, etc)
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in a technical field
• 5-7 years of experience with developing quality systems for low volume, high complex manufacturing environments and suppliers.  Working knowledge of AS9100/ AS6500 / 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 quality requirements for aerial vehicles.  Experience with Teamcenter, SolidWorks/NX, Jira, Foundry, and manufacturing execution systems