Senior Quality Engineer

To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

At Cesium Astro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, Cesium Astro is the place for you.

We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.

We are looking to add a Senior Quality Engineer to our team. In this role you will support product and process quality by leading quality planning, inspections, process monitoring, and continuous improvement activities that ensure products meet customer, regulatory, and organizational quality requirements. This role contributes to manufacturing and operational excellence by analyzing quality performance, resolving quality issues, and implementing corrective actions that improve product quality, process capability, and manufacturing consistency.

Working cross-functionally with quality, engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, and program management, the Senior Quality Engineer supports quality assurance, process improvement, product validation, and manufacturing activities while ensuring products and processes comply with quality standards, customer requirements, and business objectives.

• Lead quality assurance activities by evaluating product and process requirements, inspection results, and quality documentation to ensure compliance with established standards.
• Perform quality evaluations, inspections, process monitoring, and product verification activities while identifying quality issues and implementing corrective actions that improve product quality and manufacturing performance.
• Support validation activities, first article inspections, process verification, and quality reviews that ensure products and manufacturing processes meet customer, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
• Maintain quality records, inspection documentation, nonconformance reports, and quality data within quality management systems to support compliance, traceability, and reporting.
• Analyze quality metrics, inspection results, process performance, defect trends, and process capability to identify opportunities for quality improvement and operational excellence.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities by documenting findings, verifying implementation effectiveness, and monitoring long-term corrective actions.
• Partner cross-functionally with quality, engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and finance to align quality objectives with operational priorities and customer requirements.
• Communicate quality issues, inspection findings, process concerns, corrective action status, quality trends, and improvement recommendations to appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate quality activities that support manufacturing readiness, product acceptance, customer requirements, new product introductions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive implementation of quality process improvements and operational initiatives that improve product quality, manufacturing performance, and process consistency.
• Maintain quality documentation, inspection records, procedures,…