Senior Quality Engineer, Rocket Motor SystemsActive$170K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Anduril's Rocket Motor Systems group is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer, Quality Systems & Quality Intelligence to join our team supporting operations across McHenry, Mississippi; West Lafayette, Indiana; and Huntsville, Alabama. The Rocket Motor Systems team designs,…

What you'll do

  • Create, maintain, and own the RMS compliance matrix across all programs,: mapping customer contract quality requirements, regulatory obligations, and internal standards to specific QMS processes, procedures, and objective evidence ensuring nothing falls through the cracks as programs scale.

  • Serve as the RMS subject matter expert for AS9100 and IAQG 9100-series: standards, providing interpretation guidance, leading internal readiness assessments, and ensuring RMS operations across McHenry, West Lafayette, and Huntsville maintain consistent compliance with the quality management system.

  • Evaluate and integrate quality management software, digital tools, and data: platforms that enhance RMS quality system efficiency, traceability, and reporting - ensuring the QMS infrastructure scales with the growth of RMS operations.

  • Evaluating, piloting, and deploying AI and automation tools across quality: workflows including nonconformance trending, document generation, compliance monitoring, and predictive quality analytics - and training the RMS quality team on effective, responsible usage.

  • Provide QMS oversight across all RMS locations (McHenry, MS; West Lafayette,: IN; Huntsville, AL), ensuring that site-specific procedures, work instructions, and quality records are aligned to the RMS quality system and that multi-site operations do not create compliance gaps or inconsistencies.

  • Support the expansion of production, development, and testing laboratory: facilities by ensuring new operations, equipment, and processes are integrated into the QMS from the outset - including procedure development, training requirements, calibration programs, and document control infrastructure.

What they're looking for

  • AS9100 Certified Lead Auditor certification (or equivalent IAQG-recognized auditor qualification).
  • ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Manager (CQMgr), or Certified Quality Auditor (CQA).
  • Familiarity with solid rocket motor systems, propulsion manufacturing, or: energetic materials operations - including prior experience safely working in proximity to energetic materials.
  • Experience with testing and qualification processes for aerospace or defense: hardware, including knowledge of qualification test planning, data documentation requirements, and acceptance criteria development.
  • Experience with DCMA interface, government source inspection (GSI), and the: quality requirements that flow from DoD contracts including MIL-STD and DFARS clauses.
  • Proficiency with quality management software platforms, ERP systems (e.g.,: Oracle), PLM tools, and document control systems used in regulated manufacturing environments.
  • Experience supporting facility expansions, new site stand-ups, or production: scaling where QMS infrastructure had to be built or extended to cover new operations.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification, or demonstrated: experience applying continuous improvement methodologies to quality system processes.