Quality Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Santa Ana, California, United States

Salary: $108,000–$211,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers engineering and mission-support services for NASA and aerospace programs, with a focus on responsible and safe innovation.

What you will do

• Develop and implement mission assurance requirements throughout the project life cycle.
• Monitor supplier quality, safety controls, processes, inspections, and QAR activities.
• Review manufacturing plans, process qualifications, procedures, work orders, build records, and flight hardware documentation.
• Participate in Manufacturing and Test Readiness Reviews and support fabrication, integration, and testing activities.
• Document hardware anomalies, corrective actions, re-verifications, and root-cause investigations.
• Perform final workmanship, instrument buy-off, packaging, and acceptance inspections, including work involving gas generator and mortar systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4–10+ years of quality engineering experience.
• Previous NASA or aerospace industry experience.
• Experience with GMIPS for electronic boards, hybrid microcircuit pre-cap inspection, solder-joint and conformal-coating inspection, and flight hardware workmanship verification.
• Experience inspecting connectors, harnesses, manufacturing records, shipping packaging, and hardware before integration and final acceptance testing.
• Specific experience with gas generator and mortar systems.

Nice to have

• IPC J-STD-001xS, NASA-STD-8739.1, NASA-STD-8739.4, IPC/WHMA-A-620xS, NASA-STD-8739.6, or related workmanship training.
• ESD control training traceable to ANSI/ESD S20.20.
• Pre-cap inspection methods derived from MIL-STD-883.
• Harness experience on NASA projects and the ability to pass NASA workmanship classes.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time and part-time opportunities are available.
• Potential benefits include a 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability coverage, and paid time off.
• Flexible work schedules may be available.
• Professional training and development support career advancement.
• Work is guided by a Zero Harm and People First culture.