Quality and Mission Assurance Engineer

a.i. solutions is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Quality and Mission Assurance Specialist to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) by providing technical expertise across the program acquisition life cycle. This role involves implementing MDA quality and mission assurance requirements, supporting risk mitigation throughout system development, and ensuring compliance with the MDA Assurance Provisions (MAP). The ideal candidate will contribute to the evaluation of hardware and software, support audits and failure investigations, and assist with key program reviews and working groups.

Essential Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise across the program acquisition life cycle in quality, mission assurance and manufacturing to the government for assigned MDA programs
• Implement MDA quality and mission assurance requirements by providing subject matter expertise for the identification, evaluation and mitigation of risks associated with various aspects of the design, development, manufacturing, fielding and operation of MDA systems
• The QS governing document to be implemented is the MDA Assurance Provisions (MAP). This document is a standardized set of 14 QSMA provisions, requirements, and processes that apply to mission and safety critical items. The MAP gives MDA the methodology to measure, confirm, and validate mission success through collection and analysis of metrics, risk assessment, technical evaluations, independent assessment, reviews, conducting tests, and promoting continuous process improvement to reduce cost, improve productivity, and institute QSMA.
• Assist with review and assessment of hardware and software compliance with quality and related mission assurance requirements, including support of failure investigations, failure review boards, evaluations, audits, and assessments. Activities include determining root cause of failures of MDA hardware.
• Provide technical and data management expertise for quality and mission assurance boards, working groups, and reviews to include (but not limited to) technical and mission reviews, pedigree reviews, first article inspections, and risk working groups.
• Prepare draft documents, briefs, presentations, and actions items responses, which may include information papers.
• Provide weekly status reports on activities and issues of concern.
• Travel periodically, approximately twice per year
• Position is located at MDA facility on Dahlgren, VA with expectation to work onsite at least 2 days per week, and may be additional days onsite as MDA transitions back to full time work in the buildings.  Otherwise telework from home is authorized when not required to be onsite

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Professional engineering from a school of engineering Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) accredited as professional engineering curriculum
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in a related field
• Experience in Quality and in implementing quality practices and quality oversight, assisting in the formulation of opinions, decisions for quality and mission assurance practices.
• Experience in assessing advanced systems concepts, assess specifications and perform system integration.
• Security Clearance requirements: Secret clearance

MAKE A MOVE, MAKE AN IMPACT.

a.i. solutions was founded over 25 years ago with a mission to MAKE AN IMPACT by exceeding expectations. A move to our team means using your passion and ingenuity to MAKE AN IMPACT through innovations, defending national security, and enabling access to space. MAKE A MOVE, to join a team driven by a shared ambition, and rewarded for individual contributions.

BENEFITS THAT MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Salary ranges from $164,000 to $189,000 depending on relevant experience and qualifications
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• Paid Time Off and Holidays

• 401k Safe Harbor Plan, we contribute on Day #1

• Paid Parental leave for Mom & Dad

• Company Paid Life/AD&D

• Tuition Assistance

• Wellness plans that reward wellbeing & work life harmony