Quality Systems Engineer - Millennium Space Systems
Boeing · El Segundo, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $107k–$158k
- Travel
- 20%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- Today
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Boeing (aerospace & defense) in El Segundo, CA. Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS and its top-level processes, ensuring alignment with AS9100D, ISO 9001, customer, and regulatory requirements.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, CAPA, ISO 9001, AS9100, Internal audits
- Base pay
- $107k–$158k
- Day to day
- about 20% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$149k. This one lists $107k–$158k.
Median of the low and high ends of 98 live postings that list pay, out of 194 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 193 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 7% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$148k, from 95 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 79%
- FMEA 55%
- Supplier quality 47%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 46%
- ✓ AS9100 43%
- ✓ ISO 9001 38%
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This plant: Boeing in El Segundo
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Full description from BoeingAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job Summary
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is seeking a Quality Systems Engineer to develop, lead, and continuously improve our Quality Management System (QMS) across satellite production and mission-critical hardware programs. This role serves as a key driver of AS9100D compliance, audit readiness, and systemic process improvement — partnering with Engineering, Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain, and Program teams to embed a culture of quality and compliance throughout the organization.
The Quality Systems Engineer will own QMS execution and roadmap development, lead internal and external audit programs, manage digital QMS tools and data platforms, and drive root cause analysis and corrective action initiatives. This position is critical to supporting certification activities, production flow continuity, and scalable quality operations as Millennium grows its manifest.
This position's internal job code is Quality Engineer. Our team is currently hiring for a Level 3-4.
Position
Responsibilities
- ◆QMS Development & Management
- ◆Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS and its top-level processes, ensuring alignment with AS9100D, ISO 9001, customer, and regulatory
requirements
- ✓Build and maintain the internal QMS roadmap for tools, capabilities, and processes to match program growth, new product introductions, and customer
requirements
- ✓Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Global Supply Chain to develop processes, digital tools to meet QMS
requirements
and advance new quality capabilities
- ✓Become a systems expert for QMS tools, processes, and data sets to enable effective quality execution across all programs
- ✓Audit Program Leadership
- ✓Plan, coordinate, and execute the internal & external audit program against AS9100/ISO standards and customer-specific requirements; manage audit scheduling, resource allocation, and results reporting
- ✓Support external certification audits and customer audits; interface with third-party registrars and government auditors as required
- ✓Measure, analyze, and report quality system and audit metrics to leadership; identify trends and drive systemic corrective actions
- ✓Process Improvement & Corrective Action
- ✓Drive root cause analysis and corrective action (CAPA) for internal audit findings, customer observations, and nonconformance trends
Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that benefit the QMS and overall product quality
Support investigations, quality initiatives, and cross-functional projects at the team and organizational level
- ✓Training & Compliance
- ✓Provide training and guidance on quality system policies, procedures, and compliance
requirements
to internal stakeholders across enterprise
- ✓Develop QMS training modules and packages
- ✓Ensure compliance with AS9100D, and applicable regulatory
requirements
throughout the production lifecycle
- ✓Metrology, Calibration & Measurement Systems
- ✓Support the metrology and calibration program, ensuring measurement equipment is maintained, calibrated, and compliant with AS9100 and customer
requirements
- ✓Develop and track KPIs related to tool control, calibration adherence, equipment utilization, and on-time performance to drive measurement system reliability and audit readiness
- ✓Data, Metrics & Reporting
- ✓Plan, measure, analyze, and report quality system performance metrics to support data-driven decision making
- ✓Leverage data analytics platforms, reporting tools, and business intelligence systems (ERP, Power BI) to extract insights and support QMS effectiveness reviews
- ✓Build and maintain dashboards and reports using SQL, Tableau, Python, Excel, or similar tools
Basic
(Required Skills/Experience)
- ✓Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent
qualifications
directly related to the work statement
- ✓5-7+ years in a quality systems role with responsibility for QMS implementation, audit leadership, and CAPA management
- ✓Expert knowledge of AS9100D and/or ISO 9001:2015 in a complex, high‑reliability product environment and navigating external and internal audits
- ✓Demonstrated leadership in systemic investigations and deployment of standard RCA methodologies (e.g., 8D, A3, 5‑Why, etc).
- ✓Proven ability to prioritize quality initiatives based on business risk, COPQ, and strategic goals.
- ✓This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship. A final U.S. clearance Post Start is required
(Desired Skills/Experience)
- ✓Hands-on experience implementing, managing, or auditing quality management systems in a manufacturing or engineering environment
- ✓Working knowledge of ERP, and Business Intelligence (BI) systems and their integration with quality processes
- ✓Hands-on experience with data analytics platforms, reporting tools, and data visualization (SQL, Tableau, Python, Excel, or equivalent)
- ✓Demonstrated project management capability for software system implementation and user onboarding (internal and supplier/external)
- ✓Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, and deployment functions as part of a company-wide audit scope
- ✓AS9100 / AS6500 lead auditor certification (AATT)
- ✓One or m
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Quality Systems Engineer - Millennium Space Systems
Company
Millennium Space Systems
Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), is a fast, agile small satellite company focused on national security space. Our missions have direct impact to global security, like missile warning and Earth observation.
Our team is curious, bold and innovative. We take risks, innovate and explore new techniques and technologies. We influence change because we challenge the status quo. And when we watch our satellites launch, we know each one of us made it happen.
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