Head of Quality

Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service.

Responsibilities

• FAA Production Certification & Regulatory Oversight: FAA Production Approval & PC Ownership – Serve as the primary operational authority for securing, maintaining, and expanding Joby’s FAA Production Certificate (PC) and manufacturing approvals under 14 CFR Part 21; FAA Conformity & Audits – Collaborate with DARs for all FAA manufacturing conformity inspections, system audits, and regulatory communications across all manufacturing facilities; Independent Governance – Maintain an uncompromised quality boundary to ensure safety, compliance, and airworthiness standards are strictly enforced independent of schedule pressures.
• Functional Quality Leadership (QC, QE, QA, Metrology): Quality Assurance (QA) – Oversee AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS) governance, document control, internal audit programs, and regulatory compliance reporting; Quality Engineering (QE) – Lead manufacturing quality planning, First Article Inspections (FAI / AS9102), design-for-quality reviews, and Engineering Change Requests (ECR) effectivity validation; Quality Control (QC) – Manage receiving, in-process, and final inspection operations across all plant floors, cleanrooms, and flight integration bays; Metrology Engineering – Direct precision measurement strategies, calibration systems, coordinate measuring machines (CMM), 3D scanning, and non-destructive testing (NDT) across all hardware domains.
• Problem Solving: Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA) – Drive rigorous 8D, CAPA, and Material Review Board (MRB) processes to eliminate scrap, rework, and non-conformances at the root cause; Metrics & Analytics – Establish real-time quality dashboards in VERT / VERNIE tracking Scrap, Rework, First-Pass Yield (FPY), and Escapes across every production line.

Requirements

Required:

• 15+ years of progressive quality leadership experience in aerospace, defense, or commercial aviation manufacturing, including 7+ years in executive management (Director/VP/Head) supervising cross-functional QA, QE, QC, and Metrology teams.
• Bachelor’s