Anduril Industries

Quality Director

Anduril Industries
onsite executive full-time $191,000-$253,000 USD Costa Mesa, California, United States
Apply →

First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

As the Quality Director, you will serve as the executive amplifier and strategic integrator for the VP of Quality, ensuring that intent becomes action, and action scales across teams. This role drives Product Development excellence, builds world-class Product Quality Engineering capabilities, and establishes a culture of statistical rigor and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting the VP of Quality in evolving priorities and organizational needs, adapting capacity and focus as required
  • Enabling Quality team leaders and division members to maximize efficiency and quality output through coaching and resource alignment
  • Building internal delivery rhythms, KPIs, and OKRs that drive team alignment, execution fidelity, and risk management
  • Leading cross-team initiatives requiring executive sponsorship and accountability, acting as go-to problem solver for ambiguous challenges
  • Partnering with Quality Systems Engineering to deploy and track KPIs through scorecards to inform decisions at QBR, MDPR
  • Fostering cross-functional relationships, embedding quality and compliance fluency throughout partner functions
  • Providing strategic oversight and ensuring product line governance in accordance with DCMA compliance and federal mandates
  • Serving as the connective tissue across the organization,coordinating, communicating, and facilitating
  • Owning Product Quality Engineering strategy across all new product development by appropriately leveraging the following functions at the appropriate phase gates: Reliability, System Safety, Supplier Quality, and Quality Systems Engineering
  • Owning day-to-day factory quality engineering and sustainment; owns Productization/Recovery execution (productionization, stabilization, ramp support)
  • Ensuring efforts to embed Quality at the source are executed and implemented by operationalizing findings from Design for Quality, DFM, and FSS risk management methodologies
  • Developing and executing mitigation strategies identified through root cause analysis, FMEA, and trend analysis; translating findings into design improvements and process enhancements
  • Driving DFMEA and PFMEA activities, coaching teams to proactively identify and mitigate risks before they materialize
  • Establishing product validation and verification protocols (DV, PV, reliability testing) aligned with industry best practices
  • Driving design review governance, supporting critical phase-gate reviews to ensure quality criteria are satisfied at each milestone
  • Partnering with R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to create closed-loop corrective action systems that feed learnings into next-gen designs
  • Building and leading a high-performing Product Quality Engineering team with expertise in statistical methods, DOE, MSA, and process capability
  • Establishing a center of excellence for statistical analysis, providing tools, templates, mentorship, and governance for data-driven decision-making
  • Leading capability maturity assessments for product development processes, implementing improvement roadmaps
  • Serving as Quality voice in PDP governance, aligning product strategy, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and manufacturing capabilities
  • Partnering with Supplier Quality to ensure early establishment of supplier quality engagement protocols, co-developing quality agreements and performance metrics
  • Driving Voice of the Customer integration into product requirements and quality standards
  • Leading production readiness assessments, validating process capability, tooling, training, and quality systems
  • Owning product quality scorecards tracking first-pass yield, defect rates, warranty returns, and field reliability
  • Facilitating post-launch reviews to capture lessons learned and feed insights into the Product Development playbook
This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5034676007