Senior Quality Engineer, Rocket Motor SystemsActive

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • Relevant certifications (e.g., ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), ASQ: Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Lean Six Sigma Green (LSSGB) or Black Belt (LSSBB), Project Management Professional (PMP), AS9100 Certified Lead Auditor).
  • Direct experience interfacing with government representatives such as DCMA: (Defense Contract Management Agency) Quality Assurance Representatives.
  • Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems (e.g., Oracle) and PLM software.
  • Experience as a Project Manager.
  • Experience with statistical process control (SPC) and advanced statistical analysis.
  • Experience creating quality plans, product control plans (PCP), and: inspection plans (IP) from internal and external requirements.