Senior Quality Engineer, Rocket Motor Systems

Senior Quality Engineer, Rocket Motor Systems

McHenry, Mississippi, United States

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, 3D 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.

Anduril's Rocket Motor Systems group is seeking a Sr Quality Engineer to join our team in McHenry Mississippi. The Rocket Motor Systems team designs, develops, and manufactures next-generation solid rocket motors for defense and space applications at Anduril.

As a Sr. Quality Engineer, you will work inside and outside the organization to define, develop and execute processes that deliver reliable products. The right person for this role has expert knowledge of manufacturing, test, quality assurance, and quality planning, with drive for continuous improvement. If you are someone who loves to build world-class Quality processes, work hands-on in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

• Develop and implement scalable quality processes for new solid rocket motor programs, from initial design through qualification and acceptance testing, ensuring quality requirements are embedded at each development gate rather than applied retroactively.
• Define and own the quality framework for test operations, including static fire, component-level, and subscale motor testing - establishing standardized procedures for test readiness reviews, test execution, and post-test data review.
• Engage directly with test facility instrumentation and data acquisition systems to validate measurement chains (load cells, pressure transducers, thermocouples, strain gauges) and ensure sensor selection, placement, calibration, and sampling rates produce data with quantified measurement uncertainty.
• Lead root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations for test anomalies, nonconformances, and off-nominal motor performance using structured methodologies (fault trees, fishbone diagrams, 8D) with an emphasis on preventing recurrence.
• Support the buildout and qualification of new test facilities and manufacturing cells by defining quality infrastructure requirements including controlled environments, calibration programs, data acquisition validation protocols, and traceability systems.
• Own the quality data architecture for test campaigns, ensuring that test parameters, environmental conditions, and material traceability are captured in a structured, searchable format that supports engineering analysis, lot acceptance, and fleet reliability trending.
• Represent quality engineering in design reviews, test readiness reviews (TRRs), and milestone gate reviews, providing independent assessment of risk and readiness with the authority to hold hardware when quality criteria are not met.
• Collaborate with design engineering during the development lifecycle to flow quality requirements into drawings, specifications, and acceptance criteria - ensuring testability, inspectability, and critical-to-quality (CTQ) characteristics are defined before hardware is built.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (Aerospace, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing), Quality Management, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in Quality Engineering, with a significant portion in a Test Quality or Research & Development Quality role within the aerospace, defense, automotive, or other highly regulated hardware development and manufacturing industries.
• Demonstrated expertise in interpreting and implementing industry quality…