Senior Build Reliability Engineer

Los Angeles, CAManufacturing – Quality /Full-time /On-site Hermeus is a venture-backed defense aviation company reclaiming the lost art of rapid iterative prototyping to build the fastest aircraft in the world today. By prioritizing relentless hardware iteration, we deliver high-speed systems at the pace of the modern battlefield. We work with the Department of War to provide the high-speed capabilities our nation and its allies need to maintain a durable, asymmetric advantage.

The Quality & Reliability Team at Hermeus are truly embedded, supporting the full vehicle lifecycle of the aircraft we design, build, and fly. Build Reliability Engineers (BREs) are committed to the reliability of flight components and the manufactured processes executed within production. Build Reliability Engineers at Hermeus will guide the hardware from design to manufacturing and flight operation. They will use data to understand the factors that drive reliability and support quality initiatives with design and development teams to drive improvements in manufacturing, test, and flight reliability.

Additionally, they will dive deep into the details to identify, understand, and solve difficult technical problems and utilize a system-level approach to deliver root cause corrective action.  Responsibilities Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through vehicle development to create quality plans for hardware, including identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for functionality, and manufacturability, defining first article inspection requirements, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned  You will be responsible for defining methods for inspection of components to internal and industry standards to determine part conformity.  

Investigate failures in manufacturing, test, and flight, identifying and mitigating the immediate and underlying root causes in order to reduce risk and improve the reliability of designs and processes  Determine and document appropriate Quality Management System requirements around traceability, non-conformance, and configuration management for the program and work with IT/QMS software teams to build and test the applications to enforce said requirements  You will support the Quality Management System policies and procedure documentation and participate in continual improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives.  

Own and manage the “containment” process.  You will contain suspect or known non-conforming product, providing guidance to quality inspectors, technicians, shop supervisors, and engineers to assist in quarantining and rework activities while driving the NCR process. Develop, implement, and validate Lean test and inspection processes for new and existing products and processes, ensuring that criteria are objective and that quality goals are consistently met  Confirm operational safety precautions are considered and identified per area planning standards  You will assist in driving & measuring the closure on nonconformance disposition and MRB (material review board) resolution.  

You will provide engineer-level support to Inspectors and serve as an escalation path for identifying and mitigating any risks.  Requirements Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, manufacturing engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, or engineering physics  3+ years in a manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role   Experience working in a development environment  Experience supporting the production of complex mechanical/structural assemblies required.

Demonstrated understanding of CAD and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean…