# Engineer I, Quality (R5976)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 90,000-140,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

The Associate Quality Engineer supports Quality Engineering activities throughout the development of XBAT, a first-of-a-kind aerospace and defense product.

## Responsibilities

- Support Quality Engineering activities across the XBAT product development lifecycle.

- Partner with Design Engineering to identify product risks and establish appropriate controls.

- Participate in design reviews, manufacturing readiness reviews, test reviews, and other development milestones from a quality perspective.

- Support investigation and root cause analysis of prototype, test, and manufacturing failures.

- Lead or support RCCA activities using structured problem-solving methodologies.

- Support management of nonconforming material and prototype hardware, including containment, investigation, disposition, and documentation.

- Evaluate engineering and manufacturing changes for quality risks and support implementation of appropriate verification activities.

- Support development of inspection, test, and verification strategies based on product risk.

- Support First Article Inspection and other product verification activities as XBAT transitions toward production.

- Support audits and assessments of XBAT development processes against AS9100, customer, contractual, and program requirements.

- Develop and maintain quality documentation, procedures, checklists, and objective evidence.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

- 0–3 years of engineering, quality, manufacturing, test, or related experience.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Internship, co-op, or project experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, electronics, or other complex product development.

- Familiarity with AS9100 or other aerospace/quality management systems.

- Experience with root cause analysis, 8D, RCCA, CAPA, DMAIC, or similar methodologies.

- Familiarity with FMEA, risk management, or reliability engineering.

- Experience participating in design reviews, test activities, or product development projects.

- Understanding of configuration management and engineering change processes.

- Familiarity with GD&T and engineering drawings.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Quality Engineering
- AS9100

### Nice to have
- root cause analysis
- RCCA
- FMEA
- risk management
- reliability engineering
- configuration management
- GD&T
- engineering drawings

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