Staff Quality Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; on-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations under U.S. Government Space Technology Export Regulations.

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Lead quality assurance activities across product requirements, quality systems, inspection results, and manufacturing processes.
• Develop quality strategies that improve product quality, process capability, manufacturing consistency, and customer satisfaction.
• Evaluate quality risks, process variation, audit findings, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• Maintain quality records, inspection documentation, nonconformance reports, and traceability data in quality management systems.
• Develop quality metrics, process capability analyses, inspection summaries, trend reports, and operational dashboards.
• Coordinate quality activities for manufacturing readiness, product acceptance, customer requirements, new product introductions, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field with 8–12 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 6–8 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced knowledge of quality assurance, quality engineering, manufacturing quality, process improvement, quality planning, and risk-based quality management.
• Experience with quality management systems, inspection methodologies, product verification, process control, nonconformance reporting, CAPA, audits, and quality reporting.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis, process capability analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or NetSuite, and QMS platforms such as ETQ Reliance, Arena QMS, or MasterControl.
• Must meet U.S. Government Space Technology Export Regulations eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Manufacturing experience in the aerospace or electronics industry.
• Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt certification.
• AS9100 or ISO 9000 auditor experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, on-site work in Austin, Texas.
• Cross-functional collaboration across quality, engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and finance.
• Hands-on and autonomous work focused on continuous improvement and operational performance.