Role: Quality Assurance Engineer - Mechanical
Employment Type: Full Time
Educational Qualification: B.E./B.Tech/M.S/M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering or Quality Engineering.

Work Experience:

4+ years of experience in a quality role with the Aerospace/Defence/Space Quality department.

Experience working on space hardware is a plus.

Role Description:

As an integral Quality Assurance team member at Pixxel, the Quality Engineer ensures that all processes, systems, and components meet rigorous quality standards throughout the satellite’s lifecycle. This role involves developing, implementing, and maintaining quality systems to embed reliability and compliance within the design, manufacturing, and testing phases.

The Quality Engineer will actively address and resolve quality issues for the mechanical subsystem, including quality control of processes (like AIT, and environmental testing), performing root-cause analysis and driving corrective actions to prevent recurrence. This position collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including design, manufacturing, supply chain and production, to ensure the delivery of safe, reliable, and high-performance products aligned with Pixxel's objectives and industry standards.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Oversee quality assurance and control for subsystems (structural, thermal, propulsion, and optomechanical systems) during development phases (including technical reviews) and production phases (including assembly, integration, and testing of satellites)

• Collaborate with manufacturing and production teams, ensuring quality oversight, identifying and escalating issues, and promoting compliance with specifications and standards.

• Liaise across subsystems to standardize organizational processes, manuals, and continuous improvement practices.

• Manage non-conformance dispositions, communicate with suppliers regarding issues, and escalate corrective actions as required.

• Define quality processes and inspection requirements, ensuring documentation, adherence, and compliance.

• Document and assist in risk management, including quantitative assessments and mitigation strategies.

• Conduct inspections of incoming materials, in-process assemblies, and finished products to meet specifications.

• Execute Measurement Systems Analysis and manage calibration and compliance.

• Participate in Internal and External quality reviews and audits.

• Analyze internal and external quality data to identify and act on opportunities for improvement.

• Support the development of an approved supply chain by identifying and evaluating suppliers with engineering and supply chain teams.

• Drive supplier improvement initiatives for consistent quality and performance enhancement.

Desirable Skills & Certifications:

• Proficiency in aerospace quality standards (AS9100, ISO 9001) and regulatory compliance.

• Background in quality assurance of aluminium machined components, sandwich panel fabrication, metal 3D printing, and other manufacturing processes and methodologies.

• Familiarity with thermal control systems and their implementations (like Temperature sensors, Heaters, multi-layer insulations, etc.)

• Strong knowledge of GD&T, reading engineering drawings.

• Understanding of precision inspection methods using mechanical and programable instruments (CMMs, VMM) for supplier review.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues.

• Certification in Lean or Six Sigma quality engineering methodologies is a plus.

• Proven experience in supplier evaluation, auditing, development, and performance metrics management.

• Expertise in quality tools and methodologies, including Lean principles, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, Corrective Action, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Control Plans.

Candidate Acumen:
A strong desire to work in a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment, with a passion for space technology and a collaborative mindset.

Benefits:
Health insurance coverage
Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
Relocation assistance
Professional Mental Wellness services
Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
Employee Stock Options for all hires

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases.

Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today.

Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others.

Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding to $71 Million.

To know more about us, visit https://www.pixxel.space.
Link to Pixxel in Media:
https://www.notion.so/pixxelspacetech/Pixxel-in-Media-92a5072f085e4300a0defa1ba2d37149