Quality Control Engineer

The posting, as KH Aerospace wrote it

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) is an aerospace company specializing in long-endurance unmanned aerial platforms for a wide variety of industries. KHA supports a number of customers to carry out missions involving aerial reconnaissance, survey, communication relay and communications provisioning. Endurance, enabled by effective design, is key to these applications and KHA aircraft utilize cutting-edge aircraft design together with on-board intelligence to deliver value for these customers.

Location: Hayward, CA
Reporting To: Director of Manufacturing
Travel: Approximately 25%, including domestic and international travel as business needs require

About the Role

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace is seeking a hands-on and detail-oriented Quality Control Engineer to support product and manufacturing quality across the development and production of our Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

The Quality Control Engineer will work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and external manufacturing partners to ensure components, assemblies, manufacturing processes, and completed products consistently meet KHA technical and quality requirements. This role will help establish and maintain inspection requirements, manage nonconformances, support root-cause and corrective-action activities, and drive continuous improvement throughout the manufacturing process.

As KHA expands production through external manufacturing partners, this position will also play an important role in establishing consistent quality standards, inspection processes, and controls across the broader manufacturing network. The successful candidate should be comfortable working directly on the production floor as well as with suppliers and contract manufacturers in the U.S. and internationally.

Key Responsibilities

Manufacturing Quality & Inspection

• Develop, implement, and maintain quality-control and inspection requirements for components, subassemblies, and completed UAS products.
• Ensure inspection requirements are properly incorporated into manufacturing processes, work instructions, and production documentation.
• Support incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities, including dimensional, visual, documentation, bench, and functional inspections as applicable.
• Review drawings, specifications, Bills of Materials (BOMs), manufacturing work instructions, and other technical data to determine appropriate quality and acceptance requirements.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to ensure production processes consistently produce conforming hardware.
• Identify opportunities to improve inspection effectiveness, product quality, process capability, and manufacturing consistency.

Nonconformance & Corrective Action

• Review and validate reported nonconformances and ensure affected material is properly identified, segregated, documented, and contained.
• Lead or support investigation of nonconforming material to determine the scope and potential impact on

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Who We Are

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace develops the world’s longest endurance fully electric Unmanned Aircraft System in our size and weight category. We solve large-scale worldwide problems by providing persistent overhead services to help our soldiers remain safe in theater, provide rapid emergency communications for disaster relief efforts, enable search-and-rescue services to assist emergency response efforts, help protect endangered species, and provide geospatial data to assist in slowing climate change.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge UAS technology.
• Collaborative and innovative engineering environment.
• Exposure to the full product development lifecycle.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume and contact information. We will reach out directly regarding next steps.

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