Senior NPI Product Quality Engineer

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors https://www.skydio.com/solutions/energy-and-utilities to first responders https://www.skydio.com/solutions/public-safety, soldiers in battlefield scenarios https://www.skydio.com/solutions/national-security/tactical-isr, and beyond https://www.skydio.com/solutions.

About the role:

We are seeking a talented multi-disciplinary quality engineer to define, implement, and continuously improve quality processes. In this role, your contributions will directly drive product quality, speed to market, productivity, and profitability.

Please Note: This position requires a regular onsite presence (4–5 days per week) at our manufacturing facility in Hayward, California.

How you'll make an impact:

- This position will span NPI and sustaining (focused initially on the vehicle itself)

- Collaborate cross-functionally with product development, manufacturing, supply chain, and software test teams to define manufacturing and product quality requirements

- Conceptualize, develop, iterate, and implement quality processes

- Identify and prioritize efforts between quality initiatives, throughput goals, and yield issues. Ability to clearly convey cost-benefit / ROI

- Drive cross-functional Material Review Board meetings to classify, prioritize, and triage issues

- Ensure defects are contained, participate in failure analysis, evaluate corrective actions and verify fixes are implemented and effective

- You will be involved with all quality facets from DFMEAs, component quality initiatives, IQC definitions, production review, field failure analysis

What makes you a good fit:

- As a representative of quality, you have excellent communication skills to promote the impact of quality while helping to meet business objectives

- Experienced in full product development lifecycle (NPI through MP)

- Experience implementing quality inspection points in manufacturing, evaluating cosmetic criteria, monitoring quality and yield metrics

- Technical whole-product engineering experience involving firmware-controlled electromechanical systems

- Able to write simple queries in SQL, DB to pull backend data, analyse and paint a good picture of failures signature

- Strong data processing and analytical skills (JIRA, Six Sigma, JMP)

- Enthusiasm to get a hands on understanding of complex problems

- Ability to prioritize own tasks in a dynamic, fast paced environment to maximize effectiveness

- Innate attention to detail and organization

- AS9100/ISO9001 experience is a nice to have

- Able to read 2D mechanical drawings and interpret CTQs, FAIs and come up wi