Product Development Quality Engineer; PDQE

Product Development Quality Engineer (PDQE)

Phoenix, AZ /St Petersburg, FL /Grand Rapids, MI

Avionics - Surveillance – Engineering /

Full Time Reg | F /

On-site

Acron Aviation designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems that support safety-critical flight operations across commercial and military aviation. Within Avionics, the Surveillance product line develops and sustains systems that enable aircraft awareness, collision avoidance, and airspace interoperability. Our portfolio includes TCAS, Mode S transponders, ADS-B, and integrated surveillance solutions deployed across commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms. This work is performed in highly regulated environments and demands deep expertise across systems, hardware, software, certification, and quality disciplines throughout the full product lifecycle.

The Product Development Quality Engineer (PDQE) serves as the independent Quality Assurance authority for avionics product development programs. This role ensures compliance with applicable aviation development standards, certification requirements, customer design assurance obligations, and internal quality management system requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

The PDQE partners with Engineering, Program Management, Certification, Manufacturing, Configuration Management, and customers to provide objective oversight of software, hardware, systems, database, and certification activities. The role supports both ACSS and Acron product development programs and serves as a key participant in regulatory compliance, development audits, design assurance activities, certification releases, and customer-facing quality engagements.

• Provide independent Quality Assurance oversight for product development activities

• Ensure compliance with approved development plans, standards, procedures, and certification requirements

• Verify adherence to:

• DO-178C Software Considerations

• DO-254 Complex Electronic Hardware

• ARP
  4754A System Development

• DO-200B Data Processing Standards

• DO-330 Software Tool Qualification

• Participate in development planning activities, lifecycle reviews, and project audits

• Review development artifacts and confirm transition criteria are satisfied before progression to subsequent lifecycle phases

• Develop, maintain, and audit Process Compliance Statements (PCS)

• Conduct software, hardware, systems, database, and certification audits

• Document findings, observations, and opportunities for improvement

• Initiate and track Corrective Action Requests (CARs) for systemic or recurring issues

• Provide objective compliance visibility to management and certification authorities

• Support certification programs involving TSO, STC, AML-STC, ETSO, and customer-specific approval requirements

• Review certification deliverables for compliance and completeness

• Participate in product, software, firmware, and database release approval activities

• Verify configuration control and release integrity

• Perform independent reviews of certification and release documentation

• Support Airbus, Thales, Northrop Grumman, Wisk, and other customer-specific design assurance requirements

• Serve as Quality representative for DAC, DOA, and DOID-related activities

• Support customer authority audits, assessments, and corrective action responses

• Maintain compliance evidence required by customer design organization approvals

• Participate in development phase gates and program reviews

• Identify product development quality risks and escalation requirements

• Support root cause analysis and risk…