Field Product Quality Engineer - Altius

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.

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.

• •Work under minimal supervision with

• •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 operations, systems engineering, manufacturing, and reliability engineering to determine root cause using structured methodologies (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, Fault Tree Analysis).
• •Coordinate rapid containment actions following flight anomalies, including fleet-wide inspections, hold/release decisions, and risk assessments to determine return-to-flight readiness.
• •Monitor a flight failure tracking system with full traceability from symptom to root cause to corrective action closure; generate trend reports and lessons-learned summaries for program leadership.
• •Interface with design engineering and upstream manufacturing/supplier quality to translate field failure findings into actionable design changes, drawing updates, supplier corrective actions (SCARs), and process improvements that prevent recurrence across the fleet.

• •Support Material Review Board (MRB) activities for field-discovered nonconformances, providing disposition recommendations informed by flight data and operational context.
• •Contribute to the continuous improvement of Anduril’s Quality Management System, including field quality procedures, acceptance criteria, and inspection work instructions for flight-ready hardware.
• •Support product development and NPI quality planning by feeding field performance data into FMEA updates, qualification test plans, and design review inputs.