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Northern Arizona University Quality Engineer, Senior in Flagstaff, Arizona
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rQuality Engineer, Senior
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rNorthern Arizona University
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r*Special Information*
- This position is eligible for on-site, hybrid, or remote work.
- On-site work requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities for remote work are rare.
- Hybrid work allows the incumbent to complete their work at both an NAU site, campus, or facility and at a non-centralized site with or without accommodation.
- Remote work allows the incumbent to complete their work at a location other than an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. The incumbent may occasionally work in a shared site, but primarily will work elsewhere.
- This position is subject to the availability of funding. The incumbent is not eligible for Service Professional non-renewal notice, or Classified Staff layoff or recall status.
- This position is posted as Quality Engineer, Senior, which is a working title. The NAU system title for this position is Instrument Engineer, Senior.
- Required application materials: Applicants must submit the
following:
- Curriculum vitae/resume
- A one- to two-page cover letter
- Contact information for three professional references. References will be contacted only with the applicant\'s prior permission.
- Export control requirements: This position must comply with all U.S. laws and regulations governing the export of controlled technologies and information. Finalists will be asked to provide additional information to determine eligibility for any required export licenses or exemptions. Employment offer is contingent upon a satisfactory export control evaluation.
- Work schedule considerations: Some duties may require work outside normal business hours, including travel, integration activities, or test campaigns.
*About the Department/College*
NAU\'s Radiant Center for Remote Sensing coalesces existing expertise in remote sensing and applications across the university to answer pressing scientific questions in multiple disciplines including planetary surfaces, atmospheres, ecology, forestry, wildfire science, environmental science, urban planning/geography, geoscience/volcanology, and anthropology/archeology. The Radiant Center is housed under the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) which promotes research, scholarship, and creative activity across Northern Arizona University.
About the Position
The Radiant Center seeks to hire a Quality Engineer who will support engineering activities across the full lifecycle of flight and ground systems for multiple currently funded NASA projects. This position focuses on quality engineering, mission assurance and compliance as well as systems engineering, with significant responsibility for technical execution and cross disciplinary coordination. The role also provides as needed support in electrical and software engineering areas to ensure system integrity, reliability, and successful integration. The engineer works collaboratively with systems engineering and project leadership to deliver compliant, verifiable, and mission ready systems.
The successful candidate will contribute to the development and application of new remote sensing instruments for use in laboratory, field, UAS, and spaceborne environments. Working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team, this role supports the design, analysis, development, procurement, fabrication, integration, and testing of optical, electrical, and mechanical subsyst ms for spacecraft instruments.
Applicants should have experience supporting spacecraft or aerospace programs and be familiar with best practices in quality engineering and systems engineering. Candidates with multidisciplinary or overlapping technical expertise are encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities Include
75% - Engineering
- Oversees and implements quality engineering activities spanning multiple engineering domains (systems, electrical, software, mechanical, and SMA).
- Oversees requirements development, allocation, and verification, including traceability management and compliance validation across system hierarchies.
- Applies quality engineering and risk management practices to instrumentation and system development activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Oversees procurement, fabrication, integration, and test activities to ensure conformance to engineering designs and applicable standards.
- Leads verification and validation (V&V) planning and execution, including analytical modeling, system-level analysis, and test/inspection strategy development.
- Reviews and approves assembly integration and test procedures.
10% - Technical Communication
Coordinates and develops engineering and quality documentation and presents materials at technical and design reviews.
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