Senior Product Quality Engineer - Edge Compute and Comms

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3‑D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

As a Lead Product Quality Engineer you will work inside and outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality and reliable products. This role focuses on our Edge Compute and Communications product portfolio with career growth opportunities as products develop. You will provide technical leadership to a team of Product Quality Engineers, ensuring consistency and rigor across critical processes including Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA), design reviews, Verification & Validation (V&V) testing, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

The right person for this role has proven technical leadership experience along with knowledge of manufacturing, product development, sub‑system performance criteria, and issue management and continuous improvement of products and processes. If you are someone who loves to build world‑class quality products, work hands‑on, mentor engineers, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

• Drive product improvement by implementing processes for data collection and incident reporting that will inform activities like detailed design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, and sub‑assemblies.
• 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.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities for field and reliability issues. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
• Champion the transition from new product introduction (NPI) to a sustainable & predictable product experience for our customers.
• Own the elimination of product risk to improve reliability across the product lifecycle. Engage in quality activities from concept through development and manufacturing to field use.
• Ensure the execution of product and process requirements. Define and improve such requirements.
• Work cross‑functionally to define and execute the product roadmap.
• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities. Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict 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.
• 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.

• 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, including Edge Compute, Communications, or electronics products.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including mentoring, guiding, or leading a team of engineers (3–5 PQEs preferred) to ensure consistency and rigor across…