
Senior Product Quality Engineer
Ashville · Ashville, OH (Arsenal 1) · USD 126,000-167,000 · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Ashville · Ashville, OH (Arsenal 1)
- Salary
- USD 126,000-167,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Senior Product Quality Engineer will define, develop, and execute processes to ensure the quality and reliability of the Anduril Expeditionary Systems (AES) product portfolio.
- This role involves working cross-functionally to manage product quality from concept through development, manufacturing, and field use.
- The position focuses on driving product improvements, establishing quality metrics, and facilitating root cause analysis for complex hardware systems.
Responsibilities
- Drive product improvement by implementing processes for data collection and incident reporting.
- Facilitate Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities for field and reliability issues.
- Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable and predictable product experience.
- Own the elimination of product risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle.
- Ensure the execution of product and process requirements and define improvements.
- Work cross-functionally to define and execute the product roadmap.
- Lead product health data analysis and establish metrics for measuring quality performance.
- Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.
- Develop and implement manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans.
- Analyze process capability potential from the early design phase and direct design decisions based on data.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or similar technical field.
- 7+ years of experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Quality in aerospace/defense or similar complex hardware environments.
- Proven experience leading root cause corrective action (RCCA) efforts using tools such as 8D, Lean Six Sigma, Fault Tree Analysis, and DMAIC.
- Strong working knowledge of design review and quality management of PCBA, harnessing, machined & sheet metal components, and weldment structures.
- Strong working knowledge of FMEA, V&V testing, APQP, and PPAP elements including MSA and GD&T.
- Proven experience creating and managing a Program Quality Management Plan (QMP).
- Working knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical manufacturing processes.
- Analytical skills and experience with data mining, metrics generation, and statistical analysis tools.
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management and Document Control.
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in a technical field.
- 10+ years of experience with developing quality systems for low volume, high complex manufacturing environments and suppliers.
- Experience working under DoD Program of Records (PoR) requirements.
- Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
- Experience working on weldments and driving weld requirements.
- Experience with IPC standards.
- Lean Six Sigma certification.
- Experience with government contracts, mil standards, Teamcenter, Siemens NX, Jira, Foundry, Oracle, or Odoo.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package
Skills
- 8D
- Lean Six Sigma
- Fault Tree Analysis
- DMAIC
- FMEA
- V&V
- APQP
- PPAP
- MSA
- GD&T
- MATLAB
- JMP
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- Minitab
- Configuration Management