Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company is seeking a Director of Quality to lead Product Development excellence, build world-class Product Quality Engineering capabilities, and establish a culture of statistical rigor and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Support the VP of Quality in evolving priorities and organizational needs
- Enable Quality team leaders and division members to maximize efficiency and quality output
- Build internal delivery rhythms, KPIs, and OKRs that drive team alignment, execution fidelity, and risk management
- Lead cross-team initiatives requiring executive sponsorship and accountability
- Partner with Quality Systems Engineering to deploy and track KPIs through scorecards
- Foster cross-functional relationships, embedding quality and compliance fluency throughout partner functions
- Provide strategic oversight and ensure product line governance in accordance with DCMA compliance and federal mandates
- Serve as the connective tissue across the organization—coordinating, communicating, and facilitating
- Own Product Quality Engineering strategy across all new product development
- Own day‐to‐day factory quality engineering and sustainment
- Develop and execute mitigation strategies identified through root cause analysis, FMEA, and trend analysis
- Drive DFMEA and PFMEA activities
- Establish product validation and verification protocols
- Drive design review governance, supporting critical phase-gate reviews
- Partner with R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to create closed-loop corrective action systems
- Build and lead a high-performing Product Quality Engineering team
- Establish a center of excellence for statistical analysis
- Lead capability maturity assessments for product development processes
- Serve as Quality voice in PDP governance
- Partner with Supplier Quality to ensure early establishment of supplier quality engagement protocols
- Drive Voice of the Customer integration into product requirements and quality standards
- Lead production readiness assessments
- Own product quality scorecards tracking first-pass yield, defect rates, warranty returns, and field reliability
- Facilitate post-launch reviews to capture lessons learned and feed insights into the Product Development playbook
Benefits
- Healthcare Benefits
- Income Protection
- Generous time off
- Family Planning & Parenting Support
- Mental Health Resources
- Professional Development
- Commuter Benefits
- Relocation Assistance
- Retirement Savings Plan
