Senior Manager, Product Quality Engineering - Altius

Anduril
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 146,000 - 194,000 annuallyFunction: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)Experience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Extreme ownership","Leadership","Analytical skills","Data analysis","Issue management"]

Lead product quality engineering for the Altius 700+ program within the Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike team. You’ll manage product quality engineers and specialists, execute product development and production readiness processes, own supplier quality and inspection tooling, and drive continuous improvement using quality systems and root-cause/corrective action methods. Partner across production, engineering, test, and sourcing to ensure high-quality, reliable delivery and resolve performance and field-quality issues.

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Senior Manager, Product Quality Engineering - Altius

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Job Summary

Lead product quality engineering for the Altius 700+ program within the Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike team. You’ll manage product quality engineers and specialists, execute product development and production readiness processes, own supplier quality and inspection tooling, and drive continuous improvement using quality systems and root-cause/corrective action methods. Partner across production, engineering, test, and sourcing to ensure high-quality, reliable delivery and resolve performance and field-quality issues.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and manage product quality engineers and specialists, defining, developing, and executing processes to deliver high-quality and reliable products for production and sustaining support.
  • •Execute the Product Development Process (PDP) across gate readiness review criteria (CDR, BRR, MRR/PRR) from early prototype testing through full-rate production.
  • •Own supplier quality engineering resources, including supplier quality control/development programs, supplier part qualification, and supplier risk management.
  • •Lead quality control process/framework and execution—from detailed engineering requirements and risks to inspection methods and tooling—by partnering with systems design partners and prioritizing quality control teams.
  • •Drive continuous improvement through failure mode elimination, quality metrics and analysis, production readiness activities (design reviews, verification/validation, qualification), and quality issue investigations using RCCA/NCR/CAPA/MRB and CAB alignment.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in a technical Engineering discipline.
  • •Minimum 5+ years leading organizations with teams of direct report engineers to address NPI and production execution and quality issues affecting delivery/product quality.
  • •Minimum 10+ combined years in technical/engineering disciplines related to product quality/engineering as an individual contributor engineer or as an engineering manager.
  • •Working knowledge of quality management and design review for PCBA, harnessing, mechanical structures, systems integration, power/battery systems, radar, vision/optical capture, networking/communications, and remote management systems.
  • •Working knowledge of quality planning and inspection/measurement concepts including FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements (MSA, GR&R), SPC, and GD&T (plus related manufacturing/quality systems).
Experience:10+ yearsManufacturingProduct qualityNPIProductionHigh-volume manufacturing
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Extreme ownershipLeadershipAnalytical skillsData analysisIssue management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MatLabJMPMiniTabTeamcenterPLMOracleWarehouse managementNon-Conformance managementAtlassianFMEAAPQPPPAPMSAGR&RSPCGD&TAS9100ISO 9001ITAREAR

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Secret

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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