Senior Quality & Flight Assurance Engineer

Flight & Mission Assurance Leadership 

• →Own end-to-end flight and mission assurance for Scout’s spaceflight payloads and missions.
• →Lead risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and acceptance across programs.
• →Drive FMEA/FMECA, hazard analyses, and anomaly investigations with clear, actionable outcomes.
• →Serve as the assurance authority in design, test, and flight readiness reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, etc). 

Quality Engineering & Configuration Control 

• →Define, implement, and continuously improve Scout’s quality management approach for spaceflight hardware and software.
• →Own non-conformance reporting (NCRs), root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).
• →Ensure configuration management, documentation control, and traceability across design and production builds.
• →Partner with suppliers and internal teams to manage supplier quality and acceptance. 

Manufacturing, Integration & Test Assurance 

• →Support multiple simultaneous payload builds, ensuring workmanship, process discipline, and test rigor.
• →Embed quality and assurance practices directly into integration and test workflows.
• →Participate hands-on in I&T activities as needed to rapidly diagnose and resolve issues. 

Customer & Partner Interface 

• →Interface directly with government and commercial customers and spacecraft integrators on assurance expectations.
• →Translate customer assurance requirements into executable internal processes.
• →Represent Scout’s technical rigor and flight readiness in external reviews. 

Scaling & Continuous Improvement 

• →Help scale assurance practices as Scout moves from early missions to higher-rate production and repeatable flight cadence.
• →Balance speed and rigor—implementing right-sized processes appropriate for Class C/D missions.
• →Capture lessons learned from flight and test data to improve future missions. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, flight assurance, mission assurance, or reliability engineering for space or other high-reliability systems.
• Direct experience supporting spaceflight hardware through design, integration, test, and delivery.
• Deep knowledge of FMEA/FMECA, risk management, anomaly resolution, and flight readiness processes.
• Experience working with government and/or commercial spaceflight standards and customer requirements.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make risk-informed decisions in fast-paced environments. 

• Experience with flown payloads, spacecraft, or on-orbit operations.
• Background in smallsat, CubeSat, or hosted payload programs.
• Experience interfacing with spacecraft bus vendors.
• Familiarity with both hardware and software assurance.
• Experience scaling quality and mission assurance in a growing organization.