Quality Manager, Intelligence Systems

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. ABOUT THE TEAM The Intelligence Systems team is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements. ABOUT THE JOB As the Quality Manager you will lead a team of product quality engineers who will work inside & outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality & reliable products. Your leadership will impact how Anduril designs, develops, and release to production for a portfolio of products that supportIntelligence Systems. You will build partnerships with heads of production, program management, deployments, sourcing and multiple engineering teams. The right person for this role has knowledge of manufacturing, product development, sub-system performance criteria and metrology, and leadership experience to contribute to Anduril's mission. WHAT YOU’LL DO Lead & manage a team of product quality engineers to champion failure mode elimination in the development phase, driving part and system level quality readiness for production scaling, and supporting customer / deployment quality issues. Drive product development to achieve quality experience for Sentry products and variants by supporting product making engineering activities like detailed design reviews, process development, verification, validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assembly, and system deployments. Drive clarity & resolution for development ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance that impact the product meeting it’s quality & reliability goals for production. Drive ongoing quality performance in a sustainable & predictable manner for a low rate, high complexity manufacturing process and supply chains. 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. Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team. Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities. Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict quality performance. Drive performance when out of goal/out of specification conditions occur. Review contract language for customer requirements and build a quality program that exceeds customer expectations. Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System. Define and improve required documentation and activities. Develop strategies and resource plans with heads of production, program management, deployments, sourcing and chief engineers & architects to meet customer & product requirements. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Bachelors degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineer Experiences leading a team of q