**Job Description**

What s it like realizing your potential at an innovative company that takes on some of the world s most important challenges? Rewarding. As part of our Controls & Avionics Solutions (CAS)Quality Organization, you ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who design the products and systems that support enhanced military capabilities, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. With us, you ll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career.

BAE Systems in Endicott, NY is looking for a Design Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will serve as an assurance partner with engineering by influencing and providing technical guidance on design quality assurance and design for manufacturability. Through early engagement in the design and development phase, the successful candidate willinfluence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle.This person will ensure product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements and align to factory and supplier capabilities. This position will be responsible for supporting the designs and digital hardware architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for hardware engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

+ **Quality Planning & Execution:** Contribute to designquality project bid estimates and tailor plans to contract requirements; develop and execute comprehensive qualityassurance plans for hardware, software, and system designs.

+ **Requirements Validation:** Ensure internal and external product requirements are understood, validated, properly traced to design, implementation, and testing, and support qualification testing (including testsetup, monitoring, and review of test reports).

+ **Test Solution Design & Validation:** Design and validate test strategies/solutions that qualify products and meet factoryacceptancetest intent.

+ **Design Reviews:** Participate in and influence designreview outcomes; provide constructive feedback on engineering models, test plans, and other development artifacts.

+ **Change Control:** Ensure proper implementation and verification of design changes.

+ **APQP / DFMEA / Key Characteristic Identification:** Support Advance Product Quality Planning activities, lead Design Failure Mode and Effects Analyses, and identify Key Characteristics.

+ **Design Optimization (DFM/DFM/DFM):** Apply designformanufacturability guidelines, process and factorycapability considerations, and coding standards (software) to optimize designs.

+ **Risk & Opportunity & SupplyChain Support:** Provide input to technical riskmanagement, opportunity identification, and partsupplier selection to meet design, manufacturability, and quality requirements.

+ **Design Process Compliance & Continuous Improvement:** Ensure adherence to design processes, collect and analyse quality metrics, and crosspollinate best practices across programs to foster a culture of continuous improvement.

+ **Mentorship:** Mentor team members in designquality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements; promote knowledge sharing.

+ **Program Quality Planning & Execution:** Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive programlevel quality plans (estimates, schedules, resources, budgets) and coordinate quality expertise across functions.

+ **Lifecycle Management & PhaseGate Support:** Support lifecycle management, phasegate reviews, and program returntogreen activities; ensure product quality throughout transition to production.

+ **Customer Advocacy & Liaison:** Serve as primary customerquality liaison; oversee product selloff, host customer source inspections/audits, approve and submit PPAPs, and manage customerrelated quality issues.

+ **Quality Requirement Management:** Integrate quality into the program lifecycle; ensure requirements flow down to design, suppliers, and factories and validate them through PPV/FAI reviews.

+ **Issue Management & Resolution:** Lead nonconformance management, chair Material Review Boards, and drive robust RootCauseCorrectiveAction (RCCA) processes.

+ **Supplier / Subcontract Support:** Develop supplierquality plans, review subcontractor statements of work, and ensure supplier capabilities align with design intent.

+ **Compliance & Audit Support:** Ensure compliance with BAE programmatic processes; organize and support ISO9001/AS9100/IATF16949 audits and CMMI assessments.

+ **Performance Monitoring & Improvement:** Track key quality metrics, report performance, and partner with functions to drive overall program and business improvements.

**Required Education, Experience, & Skills**

+ **Education and Experience:** Bachelor of Science degree and 2-4 years of related experience

+ **Quality Tools:** Experience with APQP, DFMEA, 8D, Lean Six Sigma, RCCA, and riskmanagement techniques.

+ **Technical Proficiency:**

+ _Hardware:_ Finite Element Analysis, GD&T, environmental/ESS testing, IPC standards.

+ _Software:_ SDLC, Agile/SAFe, version control (Git/JIRA), SWFMEA, CMMI/ASPICE.

+ _Systems:_ Systemsengineer Vmodel, ICDs, systemlevel integration testing.

+ **Communication & Influence:** Strong written and verbal skills; ability to mentor and influence without formal authority.

+ **Problem Solving:** Proven ability to analyze data, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.

**Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills**

+ Experience in defense/aerospace hardware, software, and systems development.

+ Familiarity with military/aerospace standards (AS9100, ISO9001, CMMI, ASPICE).

+ Demonstrated programlevel leadership, customer liaison, and audit management.

+ Track record of driving continuousimprovement initiatives across multidisciplinary engineering domains.

**Pay Information**

Full-Time Salary Range: $107359 - $182510

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

**Design Quality Engineer**

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