Senior Product Quality Engineer

Senior Product Quality Engineer (P3) - Rev B 10/09/2026  

About Epirus  

Epirus is a high-growth technology company developing software-defined high-power microwave (HPM) systems with devastating counter-electronics effects on modern drone threats. The Epirus Leonidas HPM family of products, empowered by innovations in AI and microelectronics, is human safe and cost-effective. Distinguishing itself from lasers, Leonidas excels against drone swarms while also bending the cost curve back in DoD's favor - taking drone defeat costs from millions of dollars per drone to pennies on the dollar.  

Job Summary:  
We are seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer to join our innovative, fast-growing defense technology company. This role focuses on our Small and Medium System product lines and requires an agile, collaborative, hands-on professional with experience in assembly, integration, and test of complex electromechanical systems.  

You will serve as a key quality partner throughout the product lifecycle, working closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and program management teams to deliver robust, reliable, and mission-ready products that meet the demanding requirements of defense applications.  

Responsibilities:    

• Support quality planning and execution throughout the Product Development Process, from design throughout production and field deployment, applying advanced quality mechanisms (DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans).  

• Implement quality strategies for inspection, assembly, integration, and test operations for small and medium complex systems.  

• Support quality gates and approval processes to ensure readiness at each phase transition.  

• Support Design for Quality (DfQ) principles across engineering teams and share lessons learned across products and programs.  

• Monitor quality and reliability KPIs for product and process performance and develop metrics to analyze trends and drive quality improvements.  

• Collaborate with engineering to define critical-to-quality (CTQ) characteristics and key product parameters and develop variation monitoring plans.  

• Participate in failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action systems (FRACAS).  

• Lead nonconformance management, root cause analysis and corrective actions for assembly and integration issues.  

• Manage field quality issues, including failure investigations, customer/program communication, and timely closure of corrective actions.  

• Collaborate with manufacturing and engineering to drive system wide quality initiatives to meet quality and reliability objectives.   

• Support and lead product qualification, first article inspection (FAI), and verification/validation efforts with test engineering.  

• Foster a culture of proactive quality ownership.  

Basic Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.  

• 5+ years of experience in quality, manufacturing, or engineering for complex mechanical or electromechanical systems.  

• Experience working with cross-functional teams to solve quality issues and drive continual improvement.  

• Familiarity with system integration and test for complex applications.  

• Proficiency in root cause analysis, failure analysis, reliability testing, and problem-solving methodologies.
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