Member of Technical Staff, Principal Quality (US)

We are looking for a Principal Quality Engineer with 7+ years of experience to serve as the senior technical authority for quality management systems and product quality across Ironstead's growing portfolio of precision machine shops. This person will own and oversee the QMS for multiple acquired manufacturing facilities, ensuring compliance from ISO 9001 through AS9100 aerospace standards. You'll combine deep systems-level quality expertise with hands-on product quality judgment, troubleshooting scrap and yield issues, driving root cause analysis, and helping teams on the shop floor build scalable processes. This is a high-impact, forward-deployed role at a fast-growing company backed by $21M in funding that is reshaping American manufacturing for aerospace, defense, and commercial customers.

What will you be doing?

• Overseeing and building out the quality management systems (QMS) across Ironstead's portfolio companies, driving certification and compliance to ISO 9001 and AS9100 aerospace standards

• Embedding on-site at newly acquired machine shops (60-80% travel) to identify systemic quality gaps, execute corrective actions, and stand up scalable quality infrastructure

• Applying hands-on product quality expertise, using GD&T knowledge, root cause analysis, and manufacturing process understanding, to troubleshoot quality defects, high scrap rates, and yield issues at portfolio companies

• Leading First Article Inspections (AS9102), MRB dispositions, and 8D corrective actions while serving as the escalation point for critical quality issues

• Driving real-time quality visibility across the network by embedding automated workflows and inspection data into IronsteadOS, the company's purpose-built operating platform