Supplier Quality Specialist (R6419)
Shield AI · Dallas, TX
- Level
- Specialist
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A specialist quality role at Shield AI (aerospace & defense) in Dallas, TX. , you will own day-to-day supplier quality execution, bringing discipline and responsiveness to issue management while enabling engineering teams to focus on high-priority technical challenges and preventive improvements.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, CAPA, GD&T, AS9100, Supplier quality
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $90k–$132k.
Median of the low and high ends of 34 live postings that list pay, out of 131 quality engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 130 other live quality postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 3+)
Typical $88k–$131k, from 33 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 61%
- ✓ Lean 34%
- New product launch 30%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 29%
- FMEA 27%
- Six Sigma 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at Shield AI
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
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This plant: Shield AI in Dallas
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Full description from Shield AIAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
What you'll do
- ◆Own supplier-related nonconformances identified at supplier facilities, during receiving and precision inspection, and throughout production, including Supplier Deviation Requests (SDRs).
- ◆Manage nonconformance workflows, including Material Review Board (MRB) dispositions, Return to Vendor (RTV) activities, supplier Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), and production issue ticket reviews.
- ◆Drive open issues toward resolution, coordinating containment, investigation, disposition, and corrective action with suppliers and internal teams.
- ◆Coordinate containment of nonconforming material by locating affected products, partnering with Supplier Development Engineers to mitigate flight risk, and supporting root cause investigations.
Required qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience in an engineering, supply chain, manufacturing or quality field,
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain
- ✓Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to liaise cross functionally, internally and externally, make presentations to team members and management
- ✓Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and technical
requirements
- ✓Deep technical domain experience in PCBA manufacturing and Rework
- ✓Qualified to IPC J-STD-001, IPC-A-610, IPC 7711/7721
- ✓Experience reading engineering drawings, including Geometric Dimension and Tolerance (GD&T)
- ✓Experience with AS9100 or similar quality management system standard.
- ✓Knowledge of supplier quality processes (Part or Supplier Approval Processes, First Article Inspection Reports, etc.)
- ✓Direct experience interfacing with suppliers, corrective/ preventive action systems, supplier portals
- ✓Proficiency in MS Office applications
- ✓Proficiency with lean concepts and statistical and data analytics
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Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description
Our Supply Chain team strengthens supplier performance and protects production by overseeing supplier quality worldwide, assessing risk through supplier evaluations and internal reviews, leading failure investigations, and supporting proactive source qualification.
In this role, you will own day-to-day supplier quality execution, bringing discipline and responsiveness to issue management while enabling engineering teams to focus on high-priority technical challenges and preventive improvements. You will work across production and suppliers with internal stakeholders to contain defects quickly, resolve nonconformances, and implement corrective and preventive actions that minimize disruption to engineering and production.