Field Product Quality Engineer - Altius

The posting, as Anduril wrote it

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Field Product Quality Engineering team operates at the intersection of flight operations and mission success for Anduril’s autonomous aerial systems. We ensure that every anomaly, failure, and performance trend is captured in real time and driven to root cause resolution—so that each flight makes the next one more reliable.

This is a field-forward role. You will be on-site at launch and recovery locations, working shoulder-to-shoulder with flight crews, systems engineers, and program leadership to close the loop between what happens in the air and what gets fixed on the ground.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Flight Operations Quality Data Collection

• Work under minimal supervision with responsibilities for test planning, execution, reporting, and evaluation of the aircraft system under test (software and/or hardware).
• Manage all field configuration changes—hardware, software, and as-shipped main box contents. Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Mission Performance, Design, Software, and Configuration Management to maintain clear as-built records in support of root cause corrective actions and customer complaints.
• Develop and maintain standardized field data collection protocols, checklists, and digital forms that ensure consistent, high-fidelity quality records across all flight events and operational sites.
• Perform real-time quality observation during launch sequences, in-flight operations, and post-flight recovery—identifying workmanship issues, procedural deviations, configuration discrepancies, and environmental factors that may affect flight performance or vehicle integrity.
• Establish, track, and analyze key quality metrics—first-flight success rate, recurring anomaly trends, pre-flight escape rate, and mean time between failures—to provide the product team with actionable reliability data.

Flight Failure Investigation & Corrective Action

• Own the end-to-end coordination of all flight failures—from initial data collection and evidence preservation through root cause analysis, corrective action implementation, and effectiveness verification. Initiate rapid “In the Field” 8D analysis to establish quick wins that enable return to flight.
• Lead cross-functional failure review boards with flight operatio

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