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Staff Product Quality Engineer

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-12)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead all aspects of quality activities for electro-mechanical actuators, ensuring high-quality and reliable products from design through manufacturing and field sustainment.

Role type

Staff Product Quality Engineer (Electro-mechanical Actuators)

Builds

Core Technology products (electro-mechanical actuators) for defense and allied military capabilities

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / Electro-mechanical hardware

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Mechanical design, Design for robustness, Design for manufacturability, Metrology (GD&T), Continuous improvement, Root cause analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), DFMEA/PFMEA, DOE (Design of Experiments), Risk management

Preferred skills

Six Sigma Black Belt, DFSS, Reliability engineering, AS9100/ISO 9001 knowledge, IPC standards, Government contract experience, Teamcenter/SolidWorks/Jira/Tableau/Altium, Actuator-specific experience

Technologies

MatLab, JMP, MiniTab, Teamcenter, SolidWorks, Jira, Tableau, Altium

Responsibilities

Manage product quality team and interface with engineering/manufacturing/supplier teams; Lead technical design reviews, verification, validation, and qualification; Drive quality controls and metrics for first pass yield and scrap reduction; Champion NPI transition to sustainable high-rate manufacturing; Own product design risk management and lifecycle quality; Lead RCCA and MRB activities; Establish quality metrics and strategy; Support continuous improvement of Quality Management System; Conduct DOE for design and process improvements.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with team leadership

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