Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance (R5358)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Support ground and flight test readiness, including hardware inspections, configuration verification, test article acceptance, and review of test documentation
• Work directly with flight test and engineering teams to identify, document, and resolve hardware, configuration, process, and test discrepancies
• Review engineering drawings, specifications, test procedures, work instructions, configuration records, and acceptance criteria
• Ensure test articles meet applicable engineering, quality, safety, and configuration requirements before testing
• Support execution of ground and flight test activities, including inspections, test point readiness, discrepancy resolution, and post-test evaluations
• Manage nonconformances, test discrepancies, and quality records through appropriate containment, investigation, disposition, and corrective action
• Lead or support root cause analysis and corrective actions for product, process, and test-related issues
• Identify emerging quality risks and work with engineering and test teams to implement practical mitigations

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technology, quality, or related field, or equivalent experience supporting developmental test operations
• 5+ years of experience supporting developmental and/or operational ground or flight test
• Experience working directly with developmental aircraft, complex aerospace hardware, or mission-critical systems
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, bills of materials, test procedures, work instructions, and acceptance requirements
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced developmental test environment with changing requirements and priorities
• Willingness to work outdoors at test ranges and travel as required
• Overtime, evening, and weekend coverage as required by flight test operations
• 10+ years of experience supporting developmental or operational flight test