Fast-transient power systems. Embedded controllers operating in millisecond time scales. Instrumentation and controls that turn a gas turbine into an intelligent machine. Backed by Bessemer, Y Combinator and South Park Commons.
About the role
That only works if the hardware meets design intent. Right now, we have the inspection capability to check parts. What we don't have is the system that makes inspection credible, repeatable, and scalable. That's what this role exists to build.
What they're looking for
- Define how parts get inspected — from receiving through in-process checks to final inspection — and build the processes that make it repeatable
- Develop the inspection report format, traceability framework, and nonconformance workflow that the quality system runs on
- Work directly with our inspection team to establish standards for how inspection programs are built, documented, and handed off
- Identify gaps in our current inspection capability, spec the equipment needed to close them, and make the business case to procure it
- Establish how we handle parts that leave for outside processing — heat treat, coating — and what gets verified when they come back
- Build toward AS9100 compliance from day one — architecting processes today that don't need to be rebuilt later
More about this role
Boom Supersonic is building the Overture supersonic airliner and the Superpower gas turbine — machines that require some of the most demanding manufacturing in modern industry.
That only works if the hardware meets design intent. Right now, we have the inspection capability to check parts. What we don't have is the system that makes inspection credible, repeatable, and scalable. That's what this role exists to build.
Not a traditional quality architect role
At most companies, a quality engineer inherits a system — procedures, reports, calibration programs, nonconformance workflows. They learn how it works and keep it running.
This is not that job.
We have an inspection team executing inspection work and machinists making hardware. What we don't have is the architecture that sits above it — the inspection standards, the reports, the traceability framework, the nonconformance process, the calibration program. You're building that layer from scratch, and you're doing it while hardware is actively moving through the shop.
What you'll do
- Define how parts get inspected — from receiving through in-process checks to final inspection — and build the processes that make it repeatable
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