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Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance (R5358)

Shield AI· Aircraft Operations Division – Quality
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Hybrid (Wichita Metro Area)$110k - $160kFull Time EmployeePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Quality Assurance professional to support development and flight test of the X-BAT program, embedded with flight test and engineering operations to ensure test articles are configured, inspected, documented, and ready for safe ground and flight testing.

Responsibilities

  • Support ground and flight test readiness, including hardware inspections, configuration verification, test article acceptance, and review of test documentation
  • Work directly with flight test and engineering teams to identify, document, and resolve hardware, configuration, process, and test discrepancies
  • Review engineering drawings, specifications, test procedures, work instructions, configuration records, and acceptance criteria
  • Ensure test articles meet applicable engineering, quality, safety, and configuration requirements before testing
  • Support execution of ground and flight test activities, including inspections, test point readiness, discrepancy resolution, and post-test evaluations
  • Manage nonconformances, test discrepancies, and quality records through appropriate containment, investigation, disposition, and corrective action
  • Lead or support root cause analysis and corrective actions for product, process, and test-related issues
  • Identify emerging quality risks and work with engineering and test teams to implement practical mitigations
  • Analyze test and quality data to identify trends, recurring issues, and opportunities to improve development and test processes
  • Support configuration management and traceability of developmental hardware, assemblies, and test articles
  • Ensure objective evidence and quality records are complete and support product and test requirements
  • Promote a culture of safety, technical rigor, accountability, and disciplined execution in developmental test operation

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technology, quality, or related field, or equivalent experience supporting developmental test operations
  • 5+ years of experience supporting developmental and/or operational ground or flight test
  • Experience working directly with developmental aircraft, complex aerospace hardware, or mission-critical systems
  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, bills of materials, test procedures, work instructions, and acceptance requirements
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced developmental test environment with changing requirements and priorities
  • Willingness to work outdoors at test ranges and travel as required
  • Overtime, evening, and weekend coverage as required by flight test operations

Skills

Required:Quality Assurance in flight testEngineering drawing interpretationRoot cause analysis and corrective action
Nice to have:Configuration management and traceabilityFlight test readinessAS9100 knowledgeMRB/NCR/RCCA/CAPA processesASQ/ Six Sigma certification
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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