Sr Design Quality Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-01-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX38: 1717 E Cityline Drive 1717 E Cityline Drive Building C17, Richardson, TX, 75082 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Design Quality Engineering professional to work with others to achieve excellence in design and efficient lifecycle execution. This position is responsible for working closely with design engineering teams in Mission Systems to provide quality-focused technical and process oversight of product developments throughout their lifecycle. As a Design Quality Engineer team member, you will be a design quality focal, ensuring designs meet quality expectations, as well as customer, regulatory, and other requirements. You will also influence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects before delivery. 

This role will be required to work in a collaborative onsite environment in Richardson, TX.

What YOU will do: 

• Establish rapport across the organization, including leadership, engineering teams, shared service teams, and customers. 

• Communicate masterfully both verbally and in writing. 

• Assist with engineering project planning activities to ensure plans account for regulatory and customer requirements and incorporates best practices and lessons learned. 

• Apply knowledge of CMMI, AS9100, AS9115, AS9145, DO-178 and DO-254 standards to ensure requirements are met effectively.

• Assess proactively the health of design projects using objective measurements and assessments. 

• Review products and processes for compliance to process requirements, program directives and reviews work practices for adequacy.

• Advise project teams and leadership of design quality trends and systemic issues, using quality methods and tools to investigate, determine root cause, and recommend corrective actions to deliver high quality designs. 

• Research, create, or use networks and resources to identify and share best practices with design teams

What YOU will learn:  

• Internal design and development processes and methods 

• Engineering workflow tools 

• Agile methodology 

• You will develop a design quality and assurance engagement strategy & plan to ensure effective and efficient support to the engineering project(s) 

  

Qualifications YOU must have: 

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required 

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance 

• Experience conducting technical research and interpreting standards for application (e. g. ASE, ISO, IEEE, DoD, DFARs, etc.) 

• Experience with Agile and/or DevOps software development 

• Experience with project-level configuration management

• Experience with analysis and continual improvement methods

Skills WE value: 

• Experience in a quality role of any kind is desirable. 

• Knowledge of or experience with design and development lifecycle, particularly requirements verification, validation and product integration

What WE Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees  

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option  

• Tuition reimbursement program 

• Student Loan Repayment Program  

• Life insurance and disability coverage  

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection 

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits