# Head of Aircraft Quality (R6146)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 260,000-390,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a hands-on quality leader to take X-BAT from early prototype builds through production launch and into rate production.

The successful candidate will build the aircraft quality organization and establish the quality capability for the new Seattle-area production facility, X-Forge 3.

Responsibilities:

- Build quality into prototype and launch

- Establish the Seattle quality operation

- Deliver quality at rate

The ideal candidate will have:

- 10+ years of leadership experience in quality, product assurance or reliability within aerospace, defense technology or high-reliability manufacturing

- Demonstrated success leading quality through prototype or new product introduction and into sustained production

- Deep expertise in containment, root cause analysis, MRB, corrective and preventive action, and continuous improvement

## Skills

### Required
- quality management
- aerospace engineering
- defense technology
- leadership
- quality planning
- inspection
- nonconformance management
- audit readiness

### Nice to have
- aircraft final assembly
- systems integration
- production test
- reliability improvement
- digital quality systems
- statistical process controls
- data-driven defect prevention

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