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Staff Product Quality Engineer - Actuators

Anduril· Quality Reliability & System Safety : Quality Engineering : Product Quality Engineering
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Staff Product Quality Engineer for Actuators at Anduril. Leads actuators quality activities and team; focuses on electro-mechanical actuators within Core Technology products; role includes development, robustness, manufacturability, metrology, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of product quality engineers and interface closely with product engineering, manufacturing engineering, production team and supplier quality team.
  • Drive product development to achieve quality experience for the actuators by leading technical design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, and the assembly itself.
  • Drive clarity & resolution for development ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance that impact the product meeting its quality & reliability goals for volume production.
  • Drive quality controls and assurance throughout production phases; develop metrics to uphold the highest level of first pass yield and continuous scrap reduction.
  • Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable, high rate manufacturing process and supply chain.
  • Own product design risk management to ensure robustness and to improve reliability across the product lifecycle. Engage in quality activities from concept through development and manufacturing to field use.
  • Own product quality end-to-end from incoming components, subsystems, and the end-product assembly from early design phase to field sustainment.
  • Ensure the execution of product and process requirements. Define and improve such requirements.
  • Work cross-functionally to define and execute the product roadmap from quality perspective.
  • Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
  • Establish metrics quality metrics and develop a strategy to ensure best in class quality performance.
  • Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System. Define and improve required documentation and activities.
  • Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organization level.
  • Responsible for root cause analysis and associated characterization/sensitivity test development.
  • Support supplier quality visits to the supply base to consistently improve process quality and drive down cost of poor quality.
  • Develop and implement manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans per category of component (castings, forgings, machined parts, electromechanical systems).
  • Cross functional leadership through design, manufacturing, quality, and reliability engineering to analyze process capability potential from the early design phase and direct design decisions based on data.
  • Lead and conduct DOE’s (Design Of Experiments) to support design and process improvements.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar technical field
  • Experience in Mechanical Engineering designs, Product development, product launches, manufacturing engineering and Quality in automotives, aerospace/defense or similar electro-mechanical hardware systems.
  • Expertise in technical design review and quality management of PCBA, avionics, systems integration, and mechanical systems.
  • Experience DFMEA’s & PFMEA’s for new products to define and manage design and process risks while identifying robustness actions.
  • Expertise in SPC (Statistical Process Control), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), and other statistical aspects of the design and manufacturing of mechanical components.
  • Expertise in mechanical and/or electro-mechanical systems manufacturing processes.
  • 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

Skills

Required:Team leadershipTechnical design reviewsQuality managementDFMEA/PFMEAStatistical methodsRoot Cause and Corrective ActionDOE

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and related support) available at little to no cost to employees
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers (part of total compensation)
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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