Senior Quality Systems Engineer, United Kingdom

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

The Quality organisation at Anduril is seeking a Senior Quality Systems Engineer to join the London team and help develop future opportunities for the internal quality management system and digitization efforts.

Responsibilities

• Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the Quality Management System (QMS) and its top-level processes.
• Coordinate resources and prioritization of tasks to complete internal and external audits of the QMS.
• Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS software implementation and adoption across Anduril sites, including the London facility.
• Ensure full compliance with UK regulatory requirements, including UK MOD Defense Standards (DEF STANs), UKCA marking where applicable, and relevant UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulations for defense manufacturing environments.
• Drive compliance with NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for aerospace quality.
• Liaise with the UK MOD Quality Assurance representatives, the Defence Quality Assurance (DQA) organisation, and NATO Quality Assurance authorities to support Government Quality Assurance (GQA) activities and audits.
• Partner with business systems team, product quality engineers, and manufacturing engineers to help prepare new processes, digital tools, and sites to meet QMS requirements.
• Develop the internal QMS road map for tools and capabilities to match the scaling of the company.
• Ensure compliance with UK data protection requirements (UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018).
• Become a systems expert for Anduril’s quality tools, processes, and data sets.
• Communicate with external audit agencies.
• Manage the QMS internal audit program and lead internal audits.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed.
• Support developing QMS training modules and packages.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective action with internal findings from audits and customer visits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 3–5 years of experience in aerospace and/or defence manufacturing.
• Expert knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing in a complex product environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for aerospace quality.
• Familiarity with UK MOD Defence Standards (DEF STANs) and Government Quality Assurance (GQA) processes.
• Understanding of UK regulatory frameworks relevant to defence manufacturing.
• Working knowledge with QMS software solutions.
• Hands-on experience with data analytics platforms, reporting tools, and basic data visualisation.
• Demonstrated project management for software system implementation and onboarding suppliers.
• Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, and other organisations.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Business Intelligence (BI) systems.
• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Proven track record of implementation and success with QMS.
• Right to work in the United Kingdom.

Benefits

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