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Product Assurance Engineer - Solar Arrays (f/m/d)

DcubedGermering🇩🇪GermanyPosted 7 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to build trust and ensure the quality of cutting-edge solar array products for space missions, allowing you to directly impact the success of next-generation space power systems. You will thrive here if you have a passion for quality, meticulous attention to detail, and desire to shape robust quality infrastructure in a growing company, with the added benefit of a hybrid work model for flexibility.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Germering, Germany
Posted
4 weeks ago
ComplianceContinuous ImprovementRisk Management

Job Description

About the role

Space missions are built on trust. Trust that every part is inspected, every requirement is met, every deviation is understood, and every piece of flight hardware performs as intended.

As Product Assurance Engineer – Solar Arrays (f/m/d), you will be responsible for building and maintaining that trust. You will own the quality infrastructure behind Dcubed's Solar Array products, ensuring compliance with customer requirements, aerospace standards, and internal processes throughout development, qualification, manufacturing, and delivery.

From incoming inspections and NCR management to customer documentation, audits, configuration control, and continuous improvement, you will help shape the systems that enable Dcubed to deliver reliable space hardware at scale.

If you are passionate about quality, thrive on attention to detail, and want to have a direct impact on the success of real space missions, this is an opportunity to help build the foundations of the next generation of space power systems.

Responsibilities

Product Assurance & Quality Management

  • Own and maintain the Solar Array Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with customer requirements, ISO 9001, AS9100, and applicable aerospace standards.

  • Act as the independent Product Assurance representative throughout the product lifecycle, promoting quality, compliance, traceability, and continuous improvement.

Inspection, Suppliers & Configuration Control

  • Own incoming inspections, supplier quality activities, and product traceability throughout the product lifecycle.

  • Ensure effective configuration control of hardware, drawings, procedures, and manufacturing records, and manage the release of approved documentation.

NCR & Risk Management

  • Own the NCR process from identification through closure, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and trend monitoring.

  • Support risk identification and mitigation activities related to product quality, manufacturing processes, supplier performance, and hardware reliability.

Documentation & Customer Assurance

  • Own customer quality documentation, compliance records, inspection reports, certificates of conformity, and manufacturing data packages.

  • Support customer reviews, audits, qualification campaigns, and hardware acceptance activities.

Continuous Improvement & Compliance

  • Support internal and external audits, certification activities, and ongoing maturation of dcubed's quality infrastructure.

  • Monitor quality performance metrics and drive continuous improvement initiatives across development, qualification, and manufacturing activities.

Candidate Requirements

Experience & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related discipline.

  • 3+ years of experience in Product Assurance, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Quality, or Quality Management.

  • Experience working in aerospace, space, aviation, automotive, medical, or other highly regulated industries.

  • Experience with inspections, non-conformance management, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.

  • Experience supporting audits and maintaining structured quality systems.

  • Eligible to work in Germany.

Technical Skills

  • Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems and quality assurance principles.

  • Familiarity with ISO 9001 and AS9100 requirements and their practical implementation.

  • Experience with incoming inspection, NCR management, CAPA processes, traceability, and configuration control.

  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, manufacturing documentation, and inspection records.

  • Familiarity with manufacturing, integration, testing, qualification, and customer acceptance activities.

  • Strong digital mindset with the ability to leverage AI-powered tools to streamline documentation, reporting, and quality processes.

Personal Attributes

  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.

  • Independent mindset with the confidence to challenge non-compliant practices.

  • Excellent organizational, documentation, and communication skills.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

  • Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working across Engineering, Production, AIT, and Project Management teams.

  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

What we offer

We want you to feel welcome and have the best possible tools for your work here at Dcubed. Therefore, we have selected a set of benefits to support your work days and everyday life, today and longer term.

  • Commute: Deutschlandticket

  • Wellbeing: EGYM Wellpass, recovery toolkit

  • ETF-based pension program offering 30-50% company contribution

  • Modern work equipment, based on your role and needs: laptop, phone, headphones, electric desk, wide screens, state-of-the-art workshop equipment

  • Office environment: kitchen and break areas; lunch offering, beverages & snacks at the office; small exercise area, Space Bar

  • Work-life balance & activities: hybrid work arrangements (location and working hours), company events and trips, launch parties

  • Professional development: 70-20-10 thinking, training budget, training library, regular performance reviews

  • Company swag: hoodie, t-shirt, stickers, water bottle, notebook etc.

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