Senior QMS Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Quality organization is seeking a Senior QMS Engineer to own and advance the quality management system for Battlespace Awareness. The Quality team works with our customers, internal teams, and suppliers to ensure the deployment of reliable products that meet all mission requirements. We develop cutting-edge Quality processes and methods to secure scalable, long-term business success.

Battlespace Awareness operates a certified ISO9001 certified quality management system, and we are looking for continuous improvement while harmonizing it with Anduril’s enterprise QMS. As we transition to AS9100 QMS, this role sits at the center of that work. You will be the face of our quality management system — to our auditors, our customers, and our own production floor. 

This role is not confined to systems work. The person in this seat will spend real time on product — supplier and special-process oversight, first article inspection, nonconforming material and MRB, and the escapes that come back from the field. We will support a candidate who wants to grow toward Product Quality Engineering, or who comes from the product side and wants to build systems depth. 

The right person for this role has deep knowledge of Quality Management System (QMS) standards, data analysis, and continuous improvement and will shape our procedures, our metrics, and our culture of quality. If you are someone who loves to build world-class Quality processes, work hands-on on the floor and not only in the document system, help others succeed on the quality journey, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the BA quality management system and its top-level processes — keeping procedures, work instructions, and records current, compliant, and actually used.
• Serve as the primary QMS process owner supporting the designated management representative under AS9100D §5.3. Lead QMS planning: quality objectives, risk and opportunity management, and the Management Review cycle — building the input package, running the review, converting outputs into tracked actions, and closing those actions before the next cycle.
• Own the internal audit program end to end: maintain the annual schedule covering every QMS process across the certification cycle, qualify and schedule auditors, protect auditor independence, and drive findings to verified closure. Direct audit execution responsibility.
• Own the supplier and external provider audit program under AS9100D §8.4. Build and maintain the risk-based supplier audit schedule, perform qualification and re-qualification surveys, conduct on-site and remote audits, and drive supplier corrective actions to verified closure. Partner with Supply Chain and the Supplier Quality team on selection, approved supplier list maintenance, and performance escalation.
• Work product as well as system: support first article inspection (AS9102), nonconforming material and MRB disposition, and investigation of field escapes — partnering with Product Quality Engineering so quality problems are solved where they originate, not only documented after the fact.
• Manage the registrar relationship and the full certification cycle — surveillance and recertification scheduling, scope changes, and nonconformity responses inside the registrar’s timelines. Coordination and involvement in customer audits (government or private company) and responses.
• Own the quality KPIs for BA: define them, report them on a monthly cadence to site and division leadership, investigate adverse trends, and drive the improvement actions that move them. Build the dashboards and reporting that make quality performance visible without someone assembling it by hand.
• Run recurring 6S and FOD audits on the production floor — scoring, trending, and closing findings with Production and Ops. Maintain the ESD and counterfeit parts prevention programs (AS9100D §8.1.4) as part of the same walk.
• Driving root cause analysis and corrective action with internal findings from audits and customer visits.
• Own document and record control: the procedure hierarchy, revision control, approval routing, and retention per AS9100D §7.5. Build QMS training packages, deliver them, and maintain training records with the managers of affected personnel.
• Partner with product quality engineers and manufacturing engineers during the new product development phase to help prepare new products and sites to meet QMS requirements, develop new capabilities to meet existing QMS requirements, and conduct internal audits before manufacturing readiness review and production readiness review.
• Develop our internal QMS road map for tools and capabilities to match the scaling of the company — including the harmonization of BA’s QMS with Anduril’s enterprise procedures.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that benefit the QMS and product quality.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organization level

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in aerospace and/or defense manufacturing
• Deep working knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing in a complex product environment — specifically AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015. Equivalent depth in AS9110C, AS9120B, IATF 16949, or ISO 13485 will be considered.
• Trained AS9100D internal auditor, or able to complete certification within 90 days of hire.
• Demonstrated ownership of a corrective action system — not just participation in individual investigations.
• Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, and other organizations that are part of a company-wide audit
• Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Business Intelligence (BI) systems, and the ability to build quality reporting out of them
• Experience working with DCMA, DFARs, and other government and defense programs and requirements
• Experience with ESD, FOD, and counterfeit programs, and working knowledge of tools like GIDEP, FAR, ASSIST
• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion
• Proven track record of implementation and success with QMS
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
• Expected travel 20% of the time

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Certification as an AS9100 lead auditor
• One or more American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications: CQE, CRE, CMQ/OE, CQA
• Product-side quality experience — first article inspection (AS9102), MRB, PFMEA, control plans, or field failure investigation — or a clear interest in growing into it.
• Experience with low volume, highly complex manufacturing
• Experience harmonizing an acquired site’s QMS into a parent company’s system

We request transcripts as part of the early application process to understand your academic background and how your coursework supports the skills deemed critical for the role. Transcripts help us assess your technical and analytical abilities, complementing our interview process in which we also evaluate practical experience and cultural fit. If you choose not to share your transcripts, you will need to provide detailed information regarding your academic performance in relevant courses, including projects and coursework specifics, to ensure we evaluate your academic accomplishments properly. If you do provide academic transcripts, feel free to redact non-technical information (e.g., student ID, dates, non-technical coursework, etc.). Unofficial transcripts obtained online acceptable for this assessment.