{"id":1016780,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hermeus-senior-supplier-quality-engineer","title":"Senior Supplier Quality Engineer","company":{"id":455980,"name":"Hermeus","domain":"hermeus.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hermeus","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":75,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":163,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Atlanta, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":150000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":150000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-17T21:38:35Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-17","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T15:06:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":1,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"About The Role:\nThe Quality & Reliability Team at Hermeus are truly embedded, supporting the full vehicle lifecycle of the aircraft we design, build, and fly. We have a vast array of experiences ranging from quality management systems (QMS), special processes, metrology, supplier development, inspection, and beyond. We are a lean team working together with manufacturing in building vehicles that will fly. We provide crucial design feedback to our engineering team and can rapidly iterate with design and assembly.\nResponsibilities\nYou will be responsible for delivering Hermeus Quality support for Supply Chain, including closely partnering with key stakeholders from Engineering, Manufacturing, Subcontract Management, Program Management, and various suppliers.\n\nYou will travel (~50%) to supplier sites to facilitate development activities & remedial actions, and conduct supplier audits as required.\n\nYou will provide Quality support to the Supply Chain team for the qualification and ASL-onboarding of new suppliers.\n\nYou will support inspection of components to internal and industry standards to determine part conformity and driving the Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) process where necessary via Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) when a nonconformance is found.\n\nYou will perform documentation review and verification of supplier certifications, specifications, and conformance to design requirements, as required or when escalated by the Incoming Inspection team.\n\nYou will approve or reject items and documents based on inspection results as required\n\nYou will communicate with internal customers and suppliers to resolve inspection discrepancies, documentation issues, and packaging damage\n\nYou will use electronic MES/QMS system to document issues, route parts and components and workflows to proper individuals.\n\nYou will support ongoing QMS development, continuous improvement, and lean manufacturing initiatives - developing and documenting new processes when required.\n\nYou will communicate and resolve roadblocks timely and accurately to ensure delivery and on-time receipt status - escalating to leadership when necessary.\n\nYou will apply process improvement methodologies and tools to reduce supplier quality issues and increase production rates\n\nRequirements\nBachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.\n5+ years of experience in aviation or aerospace manufacturing/quality environment\nMinimum of 3 years in Supplier Quality or similar supplier-facing roles.\nStrong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for the team’s spirit of innovation and mission of improving reliability in cutting-edge technology\nStrong communication skills and ability to read and provide feedback on technical documents.\nStrong command of quality tools, i.e. RCCA, FMEA, 8D, SPC, etc.\nAbility to travel up to approximately 50% of the time.\nWill sometimes be working directly with the hardware on the floor and will have to be comfortable stooping, bending, lifting and standing.\nUS-Person Status required.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nExperience with low and high-volume manufacturing, design for manufacture and product development life cycle, or quality tools including root cause and corrective action, PFMEAs, QMS and process auditing and statistical analysis of quality metrics.\nExperience working with a broad range of suppliers, from metallic manufacturing techniques and equipment for processes such as CNC fabrication, welding (orbital tube and TIG), precision cleaning, forming, inspection, etc. to complex electronics.\nDemonstrated understanding of CAD and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)\nAbility to commute to Atlanta, GA, or El Segundo, CA.\nAbility to attain security clearance\nDesired Multipliers:\nExperience with AS9100 and Nadcap\nExperience in a fast-paced startup development environment\nExperience working in a flight development program\nExperience working with steels, Inconel, and titanium parts suppliers.\nExperience working with 3D printed parts, castings, or forgings\nExperience working with complex electronics systems suppliers\nExperience transitioning parts from first article to production","description_format":"text","description_chars":4183,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Design & Creative","Web Design","UI/UX Design"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-17T23:47:16Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-19T04:16:41Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-09-22T16:17:31Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":163,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":150000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hermeus-senior-supplier-quality-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hermeus-senior-supplier-quality-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T19:40:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}