Senior Manager of Digital Quality Systems

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Anduril's Quality organization is seeking a Senior Manager, Digital Quality Systems to lead the team responsible for its digital quality platform and analytics infrastructure.

The Quality team works with customers, internal teams, and suppliers to ensure the deployment of reliable products that meet all mission requirements.

Responsibilities

• Platform architecture: Own the design of quality workflows in Forge, including inspection routings, data capture points, decision logic, and audit trails.
• Core quality workflows: Build NC, disposition, containment, CAPA, SCAR, and inspection instructions into the production flow.
• Quality Intelligence Hub: Direct the data models and dashboards behind FPY, DPU, escape rates, CAPA aging, NC Pareto, supplier scorecards, and SPC trending.
• Operator experience: Ensure floor operators and quality engineers get fast, error-resistant tools they want to use.
• Team leadership: Lead developers, data engineers, analysts, and quality SMEs, setting sprint priorities, reviewing designs and code, and unblocking decisions.
• Cross-functional alignment: Keep the platform in step with product development, supplier quality, reliability, and manufacturing as programs and sites scale.

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, with 5+ years leading engineers or analysts.
• Hands-on software credibility: ability to sketch an 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.
• Data and analytics fluency: SQL and Python, and 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 with a cross-functional team.
• Comfort making architecture decisions with imperfect information in a fast-scaling environment.
• U.S. citizenship is required pursuant to contractual obligations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a homegrown or heavily customized MES.
• Aerospace, defense, medical device, or other regulated manufacturing background.
• 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

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.