Staff Quality Engineer

About Skyloom

Skyloom, an IonQ company, is a telecommunications company founded with the mission to develop, deploy, and operate one of the fundamental pieces of tomorrow's space communication infrastructure to provide data transport services on a planetary scale. If you have a strong sense of purpose, focus, urgency, and willingness to compete, or if working on space lasers excites you, join our team to develop the future generation of space communication technology.

Skyloom is building the orbital infrastructure for the next renaissance in global connectivity. As Earth’s first space-based telecommunications company, we deliver fiberless, planetary-scale data transport that dramatically increases bandwidth, availability, and resiliency—while reducing latency and total cost of operations.

Our proprietary optical technology enables secure, ultra-high-capacity connections across our end-to-end, multi-orbit network or within your own infrastructure, unlocking a new standard for global communications.

Location: This role will be onsite in our Broomfield, Colorado office.
Travel: Up to 15%, domestic or international
Job ID: 1718

The Role

The Quality function plays a critical role in ensuring product conformity, process excellence, regulatory compliance, and customer satisfaction throughout the entire product lifecycle—from supplier qualification through final product acceptance.

We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving Skyloom's AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring products, processes, and suppliers consistently meet customer, regulatory, and company requirements for quality, reliability, and performance.

Working cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Management, you will lead internal quality assurance activities, including quality system compliance, manufacturing quality, audits, nonconformance management, root cause investigations, risk management, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple aerospace programs. You will also support Supplier Quality activities to help ensure the highest standards across Skyloom's products and operations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and continuously improve the AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and company requirements.
• Plan and perform internal, supplier, and customer audits while driving corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead nonconformance management, root cause investigations, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to support manufacturing and engineering activities.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Management to resolve quality issues and improve product and process performance.
• Develop quality metrics, technical reports, risk assessments, and Management Review inputs.
• Support Supplier Quality activities, including supplier qualification, audits, source inspections, supplier performance monitoring, NCRs, SCARs, RMAs, and supplier quality documentation.
• Ensure compliance with AS9100 and customer quality requirements while supporting cross-functional quality initiatives.
• Support document control, engineering change implementation, and quality record management in accordance with the company's Quality Management System.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Industrial, Manufacturing, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of professional experience in Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, or Aerospace Quality.
• Previous experience within the aerospace or space industry.
• Demonstrated experience performing AS9100 Internal Audits and working within AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Internal Auditor qualification.
• Experience working in ISO Class 7/8 cleanroom environments.
• Experience working in compliance with OSHA regulations, hazard identification, risk assessment, and Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) requirements within manufacturing and laboratory settings.
• Strong technical writing skills with the ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, manufacturing documentation, and workmanship standards.
• Strong knowledge of Root Cause Analysis methodologies, supplier quality management, and aerospace manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, and ESD control requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• AS9100 Auditor certification or equivalent Quality Management System auditor qualification.
• Experience with aerospace manufacturing, including optical, electronic, electro-mechanical, or photonic assemblies.
• Experience supporting customer, regulatory, and third-party certification audits.
• Experience with supplier quality, supplier development, and source inspection activities.
• Spanish language proficiency is considered a plus.

Compensation

The approximate base salary range for this position is $126,887 - $166,127. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.

**Benefits will be provided by Skyloom, Inc., an IonQ Company, and will differ from the benefits listed on the IonQ website.**