Senior Quality Systems Engineer, United Kingdom in London

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a real-time, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About the Team

Anduril’s Quality organization is seeking a Quality Systems Engineer to join our London team and help develop future opportunities for our internal quality management system and digitization efforts. The Quality team works with our customers, internal teams, and suppliers to ensure the deployment of reliable products that meet all mission requirements. We develop cutting-edge Quality processes and methods to secure scalable, long-term business success. This role carries responsibility for ensuring compliance with UK and European regulatory frameworks, NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for aerospace, and UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) requirements as part of our London operations.

The right person for this role has extensive knowledge in Quality Management System (QMS) systems, data analysis, and continuous improvement to help shape our internal systems, tools, procedures and the culture of quality at Anduril. If you are someone who loves to build world-class Quality processes, work hands-on, help others succeed on the quality journey, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

About the Job

What You’ll Do:

• Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS and its top-level processes.
• Coordinate resources and prioritisation of tasks to complete internal and external audits of the QMS.
• Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS software implementation and adoption across Anduril sites, including the London facility.
• Ensure full compliance with UK regulatory requirements, including UK MOD Defense Standards (DEF STANs), UKCA marking where applicable, and relevant UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulations for defense manufacturing environments.
• Drive compliance with NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for aerospace quality.
• Support implementation of STANAG 4685 (Airworthiness) requirements as they relate to quality assurance processes for unmanned aerial systems and aerospace components.
• Liaise with the UK MOD Quality Assurance representatives, the Defence Quality Assurance (DQA) organisation, and NATO Quality Assurance authorities to support Government Quality Assurance (GQA) activities and audits.
• Partner with business systems team, product quality engineers and manufacturing engineers to help prepare new processes, digital tools, and sites to meet QMS requirements.
• Develop our internal QMS road map for tools and capabilities to match the scaling of the company.
• Ensure compliance with UK data protection requirements (UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018) as they relate to quality records, supplier data, and audit documentation.
• Become a systems expert for Anduril’s quality tools, processes, and data sets to enable effective QMS execution across both US and UK operations.
• Communicate with external audit agencies, including UKAS-accredited certification bodies and NATO quality assurance authorities.
• Manage the QMS internal audit program and lead internal audits.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that benefit the QMS and product quality, aligned with AS9100, NATO AQAP, and STANAG frameworks.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organisation level.
• Support developing QMS training modules.