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Hardware Quality Engineer

Orbit Fab · Lafayette, CO · On-site

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About Orbit Fab

Orbit Fab's mission is to create the foundational infrastructure that will fuel a bustling in-space economy, capable of sustaining permanent jobs in space. Backed by Techstars.

About the role

As a Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of Orbit Fab’s components and spacecraft. Working within the operations group, you’ll be tasked with defining and improving our quality processes, driving non-conformance resolution, and working with the development and test teams to identify solutions to difficult technical issues.

What they're looking for

  • Implement standards, tools, and methods to ensure the effectiveness of quality processes and sustain quality performance improvements
  • Review designs and work instructions and provide feedback to mitigate manufacturability and inspection challenges
  • Provide research and interpretation of regulations and requirements to ensure compliance with external standards
  • Participate in technical operations and offer guidance and/or serve as an additional technical engineering resource
  • Support manufacturing compliance with customer and internal specifications to meet contractual and mission requirements
  • Serve as expert resource in Quality Engineering (QE) principles, tools, methods, and standards
More about this role

About the role

As a Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of Orbit Fab’s components and spacecraft. Working within the operations group, you’ll be tasked with defining and improving our quality processes, driving non-conformance resolution, and working with the development and test teams to identify solutions to difficult technical issues. This position will allow you to work independently and exercise your judgment, as well as be part of a cross-specialty team to solve the engineering problems that accompany products in space. If you consider yourself to be a builder, maker, or doer, please apply!

What you'll do

  • Partner with engineering and operations teams through product development and production to create quality plans for flight products, including identification of key characteristics, development testing for functionality and manufacturability, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned
  • Work with engineering and procurement to enhance supplier quality assurance and incoming receiving inspection processes. Conduct component first article and detailed inspections and document and lead our Material Review Board...

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