Senior Product Quality Engineer (Aerospace/Defense)

Location: Torrance, California, United States. Travel up to 10% may be required. ITAR eligibility is required: U.S. citizenship or nationality, U.S. lawful permanent residency, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Salary: $113,600–$130,800 USD per year for roles hired in California.

Company

hirify.global is a high-growth defense technology company developing Leonidas, a software-defined system based on intelligent power management for national security applications.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain quality assurance processes, plans, and procedures aligned with AS9100, customer, and internal quality management system requirements.
• Lead nonconformance investigations, corrective actions, root cause analysis, MRB activities, audits, and inspection and test capability analysis.
• Drive advanced quality practices and production-readiness activities throughout product development.
• Manage field quality issues, failure investigations, customer communication, and corrective-action closure.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to identify risks and improve product quality and reliability.
• Develop quality dashboards and trend analysis, and support qualification, FAI, verification, validation, audits, and customer reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of quality, manufacturing, or engineering experience in aerospace, defense, regulated, high-reliability, or complex commercial electronics environments.
• Knowledge of GD&T, design review, configuration management, and quality management for complex electro-mechanical assemblies.
• Experience managing MRB nonconformances, corrective actions, customer or program quality requirements, and quality flowdowns.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, AS9100, or similar quality management system standards.
• Must meet ITAR eligibility requirements for work in the United States.

Nice to have

• ASQ CQE, Certified Auditor, Lean Six Sigma, or IPC certifications.
• Experience with Oracle ERP, QMS software, APQP, PPAP, Control Plans, PFMEA, and Measurement Capability Analysis.
• Experience with aerospace and defense electromechanical assemblies, IPC and MIL-STD specifications, reliability engineering, qualification testing, and failure analysis.
• Experience with Excel, Tableau, Power BI, or similar data analysis and visualization tools.
• Startup or high-growth experience scaling quality processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-growing, technically focused defense technology environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, supplier, and customer teams.
• Contribute to products addressing complex national security and energy-related technology challenges.
• Support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.