# Senior Production Quality Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000-$180,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As a Senior Production Quality Engineer at Astranis, you'll play a key role in building high-reliability satellite hardware as we expand our manufacturing capabilities.

**Role**

- Perform and support quality functions such as nonconformance resolution, first article inspection, root cause analysis, corrective actions, containments, statistical process control, etc.

- Collaborate with design engineering teams to develop standards for part drawings, including identification of key characteristics, dimensioning and GD&T, and first article inspection plans for electro-mechanical assemblies.

- Write and maintain quality management system (QMS) command media to govern how we design, build, and test hardware.

- Perform process validation for new manufacturing processes in collaboration with production engineering.

- Monitor key quality metrics such as product yield and in-process inspection results to help identify trends and areas for improvement.

- Participate in quality reviews and audits to ensure adherence to process requirements and design intent.

- Support process improvements that enhance manufacturability, reduce defects, or streamline production flow.

- Contribute to the definition and enforcement of factory standards such as ESD handling, tool calibration and cleanliness requirements.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in a science or engineering discipline.

- 6+ years of experience in a quality or manufacturing engineering role. (3+ years with an MS/PhD)

- Experience with inspection techniques, electronics troubleshooting and basic GD&T principles.

- Experience with CAD, PLM, or ERP systems such as Solidworks, Altium, and Arena.

- Basic proficiency in Python or SQL for data analysis.

- Familiarity with root cause analysis, corrective action, and basic quality tools (e.g., 5 Whys, Fishbone, Pareto).

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

- Demonstrated application of process validation and control methods such as PFMEA, design of experiments (DOE), and statistical process control (SPC).

- Hands-on experience qualifying and maintaining manufacturing processes for electronics and/or mechanical assemblies.

- Experience reviewing design documentation and implementing first-article inspection plans.

**Bonus**

- Knowledgeable in spaceflight hardware design, standards, requirement trades, and manufacturing limitations.

- Demonstrated high-impact project ownership and deployment of Quality systems.

- Experience leading production containments for supplier and/or in-house manufacturing defects.

- Strong SQL and Python skills, and demonstrated ability to manage large data sets and create useful tools/dashboards/reports for others.

**What we offer**

- Base pay: $150,000-$180,000 USD

- A compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits, including high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.

## Skills

### Required
- quality management
- electronics manufacturing
- GD&T
- CAD
- PLM
- ERP
- Python
- SQL
- root cause analysis
- statistical process control

### Nice to have
- spaceflight hardware design
- Quality systems
- production containments
- large data sets management

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