Hardware Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software is looking for a Senior Hardware QA Engineer to support the Orion program (Design Development Test and Evaluation - DDT&E)!
This is a remote, long-term contract opportunity.
The CSW performing the tasks outlined below should have a knowledgeable background in a planned and systematic approach to the evaluation of the quality of, and adherence to, hardware/firmware product, standards, processes, and procedures. The individual will be the project focal point for hardware quality assurance for the development phase of the project and a liaison with other functional departments, suppliers, and the Customer's quality organization as required. A background in CMMI and Six Sigma processes is preferred.

Work Scope:

• Utilized Safety and Mission Assurance design process templates to ensure development efforts for hardware development are in compliance with development process requirements. Development processes tasks include:
• Complex electronics (e.g., ASIC, FPGA) design process to ensure compliance with design requirements.
• Hardware design parts selection to ensure part quality is in compliance with design requirements.
• Support all development design discussions to ensure compliance with all related AP process requirements.
• Support PRACA/FRACA tool development in accordance with Customer expectations and weekly PRACA report deliveries to the Customer once tool is operational.
• Perform SCAMPI A, B, and C audits to assure compliance with all CMMI maturity level model (Generic and Specific Process Area) design requirements.
• Provide build support for deliverable hardware (e.g., acceptance data packages, test data reviews, build related non-compliances and corrective actions, etc.).
• Provide a weekly status report, via email, documenting evaluations/audits/peer reviews. Status to include Date performed, Hours spent, Criteria used, Findings and Corrective Action.

Red Canyon Engineering and Software: “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”
Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.
Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance, InSight Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation. We also work on classified programs.
Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.
We have a fun and talented team of engineers and we are committed to our engineers continued success and development. Included in our employment package are immediate HUBZone bonus, health benefits, profit sharing, referral bonuses, and a generous 401(K) retirement plan.
Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.