Quality Assurance Engineer

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) is seeking Quality Assurance Engineer candidates for a potential opportunity to support NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center located in California. Work may be performed at JPL or customer locations, or remotely, depending on contractual and operational requirements.

This role will interface with Project Managers, Project Element Managers, Task Managers, and Mission Assurance Managers to develop appropriate quality assurance engineering requirements for JPL Space Projects. Generate workforce /cost plans, quality assurance procedures and instructions. Be familiar with inspection techniques and procedures, processing of failure reports and MRB's. Implement good communication skills. Perform supplier audits/evaluations. Perform workmanship inspections/evaluations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline and a minimum of 2 years of experience in quality assurance engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with space flight hardware and a broad technical knowledge in visual inspection and evaluation of high reliability electronic, electromechanical, or electro-optical equipment.
• Requires wide knowledge of materials and processes for space flight use as well as familiarity of configuration control/verification systems. Knowledge of AS 9100 quality systems.