Supplier Quality Specialist - Harnessing (R6588)
Shield AI · Seattle, Washington
Posted November 10, 2026
AI Summary
Shield AI is seeking a Supplier Quality Specialist focused on harnessing components to manage supplier qualification, audits, risk assessments, and performance reviews. The role involves ensuring suppliers meet quality, engineering, regulatory, and contractual requirements, escalating quality risks, and partnering with cross-functional teams to improve producibility, process capability, and overall supplier quality for defense-tech products.
Job Description
Job Description:
Shield AI is actively seeking candidates with deep expertise in manufacturing and quality methodologies, paired with a relentless drive to enable supplier success and strengthen mission-critical operations.
Shield AI’s Supply Chain Quality team is responsible for global quality oversight across our supplier base. The team reduces supply-chain risk through supplier assessments and internal risk reviews, proactively drives supplier qualification and development activities.
In this role, you will be responsible for supplier qualification, development, performance management, and quality assurance across the harnessing commodity supply base. You will conduct supplier audits, nonconformance resolution, root-cause investigations, and hands on hardware dispositions.
You will evaluate supplier capability, quality performance, organizational risk, and resource needs to ensure purchased hardware and materials meet Shield AI engineering, customer, regulatory, and quality requirements. You will partner closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex supplier-quality issues, improve supplier capability, and reduce quality and delivery risk across the supply base.
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