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Hardware Quality Engineer

LeoLabs · Menlo Park, CA · On-site

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About LeoLabs

LeoLabs delivers the Orbital Intelligence operators need to detect, track, characterize, and respond to threats in space. Backed by Insight.

About the role

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.

What they're looking for

  • Develop and maintain quality processes for electronic and electromechanical hardware throughout the product lifecycle
  • Perform incoming, in-process, and final quality inspections for PCBAs, cable assemblies, machined components, and structural hardware
  • Lead root cause investigations for manufacturing defects, supplier issues, and field failures using structured problem-solving methodologies
  • Drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) and verify their effectiveness
  • Partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to improve product quality and manufacturability
  • Define quality metrics, analyze trends, and communicate performance to engineering and leadership
More about this role

At LeoLabs, we’re building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.

We’re not just building technology, we are redefining global security, safety, and transparency in space. As orbital activity accelerates and threats grow more complex, LeoLabs is a trusted partner for Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Satellite Operations for top-tier space operators and allied defense organizations.

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.

As a Hardware Quality Engineer , you will help ensure the hardware we build meets the highest standards of quality, reliability, and manufacturability. You will work across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and external suppliers to develop scalable quality processes, investigate failures, and drive continuous...

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