Quality Engineer

Join our team as a Quality Engineer II, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring product and process quality in a startup environment focused on developing cutting-edge electronics for aerospace systems. You'll work cross-functionally with various teams, support quality assurance and process improvement activities, and contribute to manufacturing and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Coordination of quality planning, inspections, process monitoring, and continuous improvement activities to ensure products meet quality requirements.
• Support for quality assurance activities by evaluating product and process requirements, inspection results, and quality documentation.
• Analysis of quality metrics, inspection results, process performance, and defect trends to identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Experience applying quality procedures, inspection documentation, nonconformance reporting, corrective and preventive action (CAPA), and quality reporting processes
• Ability to analyze quality data, identify process issues, and recommend practical quality improvements that support operational objectives
• Quality management systems (QMS), e.g. ETQ Reliance, Arena QMS, MasterControl, or equivalent applications
• Understanding of quality management systems, inspection methodologies, product verification, process control techniques, and quality planning
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate inspection results, quality trends, and process performance to support informed quality decisions
• Understanding of inspection methods, audit processes, process capability analysis, and manufacturing quality requirements
• Knowledge of quality standards, root cause analysis methodologies, statistical process control (SPC), measurement systems analysis (MSA), and continuous improvement principles

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field with 2–5 years of related experience in quality assurance, quality engineering, manufacturing, operations, or a related discipline
• Statistical analysis and reporting tools, e.g. Minitab, JMP, or equivalent applications
• Knowledge of quality assurance, quality engineering, manufacturing quality, and process improvement principles
• Applies sound judgment when balancing quality requirements, manufacturing priorities, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and operational objectives
• Ability to review, analyze, and interpret technical information, engineering drawings, and quality documentation with attention to detail
• Ability to communicate information and ideas effectively in verbal and written formats