Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Job description

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 Anduril is fielding the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of seabed exploration. Anduril has brought to the market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth platform, and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "large" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on multi-million-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations. ABOUT THE JOB We are looking for a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to join our team at our headquarters in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will serve as the senior technical authority for supplier quality across our sub-sea hardware commodities — including connectors, wet cables, batteries, precision machined parts, and complex weldments — working inside and outside the organization to define, develop, and execute the processes that deliver high quality and reliable components for Anduril missions. As a senior member of the team, you will own a portfolio of our most critical and sole-source suppliers end to end, from selection and qualification through new product introduction, rate ramp, and ongoing performance management. You will drive early engagement with our design teams and suppliers to meet our quality requirements the first time, evaluate technologies to support design for manufacturing assessments, supplier technology assessment and development, and lead supplier quality management across the product lifecycle. Everything comes down to clarity and action with our suppliers, and partnering with them for world class results is essential across the supply chain. You will also act as a technical lead for the broader supplier quality team — mentoring and developing engineers, setting the standards and playbooks the team works to, and partnering with equivalent functions at our other sites to standardize how we execute. You will carry independent judgment and escalation authority on supplier approval, containment, and disposition decisions, and you will represent supplier quality in program milestone reviews and in front of our customers. The right person for this role has deep, hands-on knowledge of battery, sub-sea electronics, wet cable, and complex weldment manufacturing, along with supply management, supplier development, sub-system performance criteria and metrology, and continuous improvement. If you are someone who loves to build world-class quality processes with suppliers, work hands-on with engineering, raise the bar for the engineers around you, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Serve as the senior technical authority for supplier quality across sub-sea component commodities, including sub-sea electronics, wet cables, connectors, batteries, precision machined parts, and complex weldments and welded pressure structures. • Own a portfolio of critical, strategic, and sole-source suppliers end to end — leading supplier selection and technical assessment, qualification, new product introduction launch, development roadmaps, scorecard and performance management, and supplier disqualification or exit when warranted. • Leverage your knowledge and expertise of materials, manufacturing processes, design for manufacturability (DFM), welding and joining processes, and inspection/measurement techniques to support the internal Anduril design process and ideation. Offer guidance in managing technical risks and oversee the progression from proof of concept and prototyping stages through to scaling up designs for high-volume production within the design development framework. • Drive the supplier quality development processes throughout the product development stages with appropriate engineering and production teams throug