Senior Manager of Digital Quality Systems

Costa Mesa, California, United States. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will lead the team responsible for the digital quality platform and analytics infrastructure. You will own quality workflows in Forge and the Quality Intelligence Hub built on Databricks.

What you will do

Own the design of quality workflows in Forge including inspection routings, data capture points, decision logic and audit trails.
Build NC, disposition, containment, CAPA, SCAR and inspection instructions into production flow.
Direct the data models and dashboards behind FPY, DPU, escape rates, CAPA aging, NC Pareto, supplier scorecards and SPC trending.
Ensure floor operators and quality engineers get fast, error-resistant tools.
Lead developers, data engineers, analysts and quality SMEs.
Set sprint priorities, review designs and code, and unblock decisions.
Keep the platform in step with product development, supplier quality, reliability and manufacturing.

Required qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on software experience.
10+ years building or leading enterprise software, manufacturing systems or quality systems.
5+ years leading engineers or analysts.
Hands-on software credibility to sketch architecture, challenge a schema, read a pull request and make build-vs-buy calls.
Working knowledge of enterprise quality processes: NC, CAPA, SCAR, disposition, containment, inspection and document control.
SQL and Python.
Experience with a modern data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake or similar.
Experience running agile delivery: sprint planning, backlog grooming, CI/CD and iterative releases.
Comfort making architecture decisions with imperfect information in a fast-scaling environment.
U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice to have

Experience with a homegrown or heavily customized MES, not only out-of-the-box SAP QM or Windchill.
Aerospace, defense, medical device or other regulated manufacturing background (AS9100, ISO 9001, ISO 13485).
Practical AI/ML use in production workflows or strong personal fluency with AI tooling.
Statistical methods in practice: SPC, MSA and process capability analysis.
IoT-enabled inspection data capture, automated optical inspection or machine vision integration.
APQP/PPAP or FMEA tied into digital quality systems.
ASQ certification (CQE, CMQ/OE or Six Sigma Black Belt).

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

Role is subject to ITAR.
Applicants must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
U.S. citizenship is required pursuant to contractual obligations.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.