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The Electrical Quality Engineer will be responsible for overseeing product quality and quality assurance activities for electrical hardware, including Power Processing Units (PPUs), printed circuit boards, and electronic assemblies used in aerospace and propulsion systems. This role will work closely with engineering, manufacturing, contract manufacturers, suppliers, program management, and supply chain to ensure products meet engineering requirements, customer expectations, and applicable quality standards. Key responsibilities include contract manufacturer oversight, product documentation, inspection and testing, nonconformance management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.\nKey Responsibilities\nPPU and Electronics Quality: Oversee product quality for Power Processing Units (PPUs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), bare boards, and circuit card assemblies (CCAs) throughout manufacturing, inspection, testing, and repair.\n\nProduct EIDP Management: Develop, manage, review, and approve End Item Data Packages (EIDPs), ensuring required quality records, inspection results, test data, and supporting documentation are complete, accurate, and compliant with contractual and product requirements.\n\nContract Manufacturer Quality Oversight: Routinely verify and validate critical manufacturing, assembly, inspection, and test processes at contract manufacturer facilities. Conduct onsite visits as needed to investigate issues, assess process compliance, and ensure manufacturing activities meet engineering requirements and applicable quality standards.\n\nTest Plan Development and Execution: Develop, execute, review, and redline detailed test plans and procedures for PCB and electronic assemblies. Identify gaps, edge cases, and potential failure modes in test coverage.\n\nElectronics Debugging and Failure Analysis: Troubleshoot PCB and electronic assembly failures at the component, board, and system levels using schematics, test equipment, and diagnostic methods to identify root causes.\n\nAutomated and Manual Testing: Develop and execute manual and automated test procedures for electronic hardware. Write or modify test scripts to support functional testing, validation, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.\n\nTest Equipment and Software: Utilize laboratory equipment and software tools, including oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, electronic loads, and LabVIEW or Python-based test and automation tools.\n\nPCB and PCBA Inspection: Inspect incoming PCB materials, bare boards, and circuit card assemblies for compliance with engineering drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, and applicable quality standards.\n\nEngineering Documentation Review: Review electrical schematics, Gerber files, PCB layouts, assembly drawings, and related technical documentation to verify manufacturing and inspection requirements.\n\nManufacturing Inspection and Test Methods: Oversee and evaluate inspection and test methods, including Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), automated X-ray inspection (AXI), and flying probe testing, to identify defects and verify product quality.\n\nRoot Cause and Corrective Action: Develop and manage product root cause corrective action (RCCA) investigations and 8D reports. Determine root causes of manufacturing defects, implement corrective and preventive actions, and verify their effectiveness.\n\nMaterial Review Board (MRB): Chair and coordinate product MRBs, working with engineering, manufacturing, quality, program management, and supply chain to evaluate nonconforming materials and determine appropriate dispositions.\n\nNonconformance Management: Manage and facilitate product nonconformance reports (NCs), including documentation, investigation, disposition, corrective action, and closure.\n\nDiagnostic Work Instructions: Develop, maintain, and own the execution of diagnostic work instructions in Manufacturo, ensuring procedures are clear, controlled, and consistently followed.\n\nRepair and Rework Instructions: Develop and manage repair and rework instructions for contract manufacturers, coordinating with engineering and quality teams to ensure approved methods are followed and product requirements are maintained.\n\nEIDP Artifact Management: Collect, review, and manage EIDP artifacts associated with diagnostic activities, repairs, and rework, ensuring traceability and completeness of product records.\n\nMaterial Management Support: Support Program Management and Supply Chain with material planning, tracking, and coordination associated with diagnostic, repair, and rework activities.\n\nProcess Capability and Quality Metrics: Monitor manufacturing process capability and product quality metrics using Statistical Process Control (SPC). Identify trends, investigate process variation, and drive improvements in manufacturing consistency and product reliability.\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with electrical, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, test, program management, and supply chain teams to resolve hardware quality issues, coordinate corrective actions, and improve product reliability.\n\nCustomer and Supplier Quality: Support customer-facing quality activities and communicate technical quality issues, corrective actions, inspection results, and test findings to customers and external manufacturing partners as required.\n\nDocumentation and Continuous Improvement: Maintain accurate records of inspections, test results, nonconformances, investigations, repairs, and corrective actions. Identify recurring quality issues and implement improvements to manufacturing, inspection, testing, and quality control processes.\n\nQualifications\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field.\n\nExperience: 3+ years of experience in PCB/PCBA quality engineering, electronics manufacturing, hardware test, electronics validation, or a closely related field.\n\nPCB/Electronics Experience: Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and debugging electronic assemblies and working with schematics, PCB layouts, components, and electronic test equipment.\n\nQuality Engineering: Experience with root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), 8D problem solving, nonconformance management, MRB activities, and quality documentation.\n\nEIDP and Product Documentation: Experience preparing, reviewing, or managing product quality documentation, inspection records, test records, or end item data packages.\n\nTest Experience: Experience developing, executing, and troubleshooting hardware test plans and procedures, including manual and automated testing.\n\nProgramming/Automation: Experience writing or modifying test scripts using Python, LabVIEW, or a similar programming or automation environment.\n\nManufacturing Experience: Experience working with PCB/PCBA contract manufacturers, electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers, or other external manufacturing partners.\n\nInspection and Test Methods: Familiarity with PCB/PCBA inspection and test methods, including AOI, X-ray inspection, flying probe testing, or similar techniques.\n\nTest Equipment: Proficiency with common electronic laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, electronic loads, and signal or function generators.\n\nEngineering Documentation: Ability to interpret electrical schematics, Gerber files, PCB layouts, assembly drawings, and technical specifications.\n\nQuality Standards: Familiarity with quality standards and electronics manufacturing practices, including IPC standards, ISO 9001, AS9100, or similar quality systems.\n\nCommunication and Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively across engineering, manufacturing, quality, program management, supply chain, and supplier teams.\n\nTravel: Ability to travel up to 10%, including occasional onsite visits to contract manufacturer facilities.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting aerospace, propulsion, defense, or other high-reliability electronics.\n\nExperience with Power Processing Units (PPUs), power electronics, or complex electronic assemblies.\n\nExperience managing EIDPs and product quality documentation for aerospace or defense hardware.\n\nExperience working directly with contract manufacturers on PCB/PCBA quality, manufacturing issues, process verification, and corrective actions.\n\nExperience with RCCA, 8D investigations, supplier corrective actions, MRBs, nonconformance reports, and customer quality issues.\n\nFamiliarity with IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-6012, or other PCB/PCBA manufacturing and inspection standards.\n\nExperience developing diagnostic, repair, or rework instructions for electronic hardware.\n\nExperience with Manufacturo or similar manufacturing execution systems (MES) and quality management tools.\n\nExperience with LabVIEW and/or Python-based automated hardware testing.\n\nExperience debugging complex electronic systems involving processors, sensors, power electronics, RF components, or other high-performance hardware.\n\nExperience developing automated test fixtures, test scripts, or hardware/software interfaces.\n\nFamiliarity with Statistical Process Control (SPC) and manufacturing process capability analysis.\n\nCertified Quality Engineer (CQE), Six Sigma, or other quality certification is a plus.\n\nWhy Join Busek?\nBusek develops advanced propulsion and aerospace technologies for commercial, civil, and government space missions. Our hardware supports cutting-edge spacecraft and satellite programs, offering engineers the opportunity to work on highly technical, first-of-a-kind systems in a collaborative environment with humble, smart people working on challenging engineering problems.\nBenefits\nBusek offers a competitive benefits package, including 401(k), performance bonuses, medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, and more.\nU.S. Citizenship Requirement\nDue to the nature of work performed under U.S. government contracts and applicable security and contractual requirements, this position is limited to U.S. citizens.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10330,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Ammunition"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-18T08:49:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/busek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/busek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T02:32:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4175,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4389860},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4389860"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbusek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbusek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbusek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/busek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbusek-electrical-quality-engineer-pcb-experience-busek"}]}