--- title: 'Director, Quality at Rangeview Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-quality-rangeview-inc-el-segundo-california-b1szq6b3z016' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Director, Quality at Rangeview Inc. - **Company:** Rangeview Inc. - **Location:** El Segundo California, United States - **Posted:** 2026-07-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rangeviewinc/jobs/4317114009 ## Job description Director, Quality Compensation: $175,000–$210,000 + equity Location: El Segundo, CA Work Policy: Onsite Level: Level 6 Hiring Count: 1 Core KPIs: Quality-system development, AS9100 and NADCAP readiness, production yield, prevention of customer escapes, root-cause resolution, and quality-team development ## Who we are Rangeview is on a mission to build the foundry system that reindustrializes America. We exist to break the legacy manufacturing trap by reinventing critical production for the twenty-first century. Through advanced software, deep automation, breakthroughs in materials science, and modern financing strategies, Rangeview rewrites both the cost curve and the power structure of making metal parts.  Here is a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCk53Se5mMY) where you can check out our team, office and what we are doing here at Rangeview, Inc. What’s in it for you As the Director of Quality, you will be the primary architect of Rangeview’s technical quality, reliability, and compliance ecosystem. You will build and scale the organization, systems, and processes required to ensure Rangeview’s hardware consistently meets rigorous customer, industry, and regulatory requirements. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and tactical levels. You will define the long-term quality roadmap, build a world-class team, lead certification efforts, and work directly with engineering, manufacturing, operations, customers, and executive leadership to improve yield, prevent escapes, and resolve complex technical issues. You will ultimately own the “how” behind Rangeview’s commitment to product quality and manufacturing reliability. ## What you’ll do - Serve as the leader accountable for the Quality organization and the primary point of ownership for product reliability, compliance, and certification activities. - Establish the organizational structure and recruit the personnel required to build a world-class quality team capable of supporting reliable, high-volume manufacturing. - Develop and scale Rangeview’s quality-management systems, processes, standards, and operating procedures. - Lead certification and compliance efforts for applicable industry and customer standards, including AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP, and related requirements. - Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, contractual, and regulatory requirements, including FAR and DFARS requirements where applicable. - Define the Quality organization’s strategy, objectives, operating roadmap, and performance metrics in support of company and production targets. - Develop and justify departmental budgets, headcount plans, capital-expenditure proposals, and long-term investment strategies. - Manage executive communications and cross-functional relationships across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and leadership. - Develop clear and objective quality and reliability success criteria for products, processes, equipment, and production systems. - Establish process controls, inspection strategies, quality gates, and measurement systems that can scale across sites, product types, and organizations. - Drive improvements in production yield, throughput, scrap, rework, defect rates, and customer escapes. - Lead root-cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions, and continuous-improvement initiatives. - Own the resolution of process failures and ensure corrective actions address the ultimate root cause. - Build systems that proactively protect personnel safety, product quality, and customer reliability. - Lead customer, supplier, regulatory, and certification audits as required. - Establish effective systems for nonconformance management, material review, first-article inspection, calibration, metrology, and configuration control. - Develop and monitor quality KPIs, analyze technical data, and use objective findings to drive cross-functional decisions and improvement initiatives. ## What you’ll need - Bachelor’s degree in an ABET-accredited engineering discipline. - 7+ years of experience in manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, test, reliability, or quality engineering within aerospace, automotive, industrial, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments. - 5+ years of experience directly managing engineers or technical quality teams. - Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or leading a quality organization in a manufacturing environment. - Strong knowledge of production quality, process controls, corrective actions, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. - Experience aggregating and analyzing technical and production data to make objective decisions and drive cross-functional improvements. - Demonstrated ability to improve and scale production throughput, yield, reliability, and quality. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical information to executive leadership, customers, auditors, and cross-functional teams. - Experience leading high-impact technical investigations and resolving complex product or process failures. - Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving systems, processes, and organizational needs. ## Preferred qualifications - Demonstrated experience implementing or maintaining compliance with AS9100 and ISO 9001 requirements. - Experience leading an organization through AS9100 certification or recertification. - Experience with NADCAP certification or special-process accreditation. - Knowledge of AS9102 first-article inspection requirements. - Experience with nonconformance, material review board, CAPA, supplier quality, and customer-quality systems. - Strong understanding of warehouse-management, manufacturing-execution, and quality-management systems. - Experience selecting, implementing, or scaling WMS, MES, or QMS platforms. - Experience with metrology, inspection, calibration, and measurement systems. - Experience supporting aerospace, defense, automotive, or other high-reliability hardware programs. - Experience managing supplier-quality programs and supplier corrective actions. - 2+ years of experience in a senior leadership role. - Demonstrated experience managing departmental budgets, capital-expenditure proposals, and resource allocation. - Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous-improvement experience. Additional requirements - Must be able to work onsite in El Segundo, California. - Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed. - Must be able to support manufacturing, customer, supplier, and audit activities based on business needs. ## Compensation The salary range for this role is: Level 6: $175,000–$210,000 annually + equity Salary is based on demonstrated candidate experience, qualifications, level, market conditions, and business considerations. ## Benefits and perks Rangeview offers a competitive benefits package, including: - Equity - Unlimited PTO - Medical insurance - Dental insurance - Vision insurance Compliance Rangeview is a DDTC-registered, ITAR-compliant business. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be a: - U.S. citizen or U.S. national - U.S. lawful permanent resident - Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157 - Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158 Applicants may also be considered if they are eligible to obtain the required authorization from the U.S. Department of State. Rangeview is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs and will not be influenced by any legally protected status. ## About Rangeview Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Rangeview is rethinking precision investment casting by building a digital, robotic "cyberfoundry" to produce high-quality metal parts faster and cheaper for defense, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (with additional offices in El Segundo, CA and Lakewood, CO) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Cameron Schiller (CEO) and Aeden Gasser-Brennan (CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing; advanced precision casting for aerospace, defense components, and industrial applications. - Target customers: B2B / B2G – primarily defense primes, aerospace OEMs, and manufacturers needing complex cast superalloy parts. - Mission / purpose: Restore America’s industrial foundation by reinventing the technology stack of precision casting using robotics, data processing, and additive manufacturing. ## Products & Services - **Digital Casting Technology (Cyberfoundry)**: A proprietary end-to‑end manufacturing system that combines additive manufacturing of ceramic molds, automated casting, and data-driven quality control. Claimed benefits include higher yield, lower tooling costs, and dramatically reduced lead times compared to traditional investment casting. - **Materials & Capabilities**: Handles nickel, cobalt, and other superalloys (e.g., MAR‑M‑247, IN713LC, IN718); vacuum and air melt casting; surface finishes down to less than 10 µin Ra after superfinishing; supports DFM, NDT, heat treatment, HIP, machining, metallurgical analysis, and mechanical testing. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available. - **Key Metric**: Total disclosed funding ≈ $200K Seed round (CB Insights); also secured a $1.43M U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase II award in 2025 (SBIR.gov). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Berkeley SkyDeck (lead), TenOneTen Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, Shield Capital, and others. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 63.6% year-over-year to ~15 employees (LinkedIn); website traffic up 190% yearly; awarded a significant SBIR contract in 2025; currently hiring for senior engineering and automation roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Differentiated Process**: Replace the multi‑step traditional investment casting with a digital, ceramic‑mold additive process – fewer steps, less tooling cost, faster turnaround. - **Material Expertise**: Deep capability with nickel‑ and cobalt‑based superalloys critical for turbine components; supports high‑precision standards (AMS 2175 Grade A). - **Self‑Reinforcing Moat**: Combining proprietary equipment, software, and materials in a single “cyberfoundry” creates a hard-to-replicate system where machine, material, and data are continuously improved together. ## Strategic Focus - **Priorities**: Scale up production capacity for defense and aerospace customers; further reduce porosity and material waste; automate more steps in the foundry; expand team talent in casting engineering, equipment automation, and government program management. - **Direction**: Deepen partnerships with DoD primes and leverage SBIR wins to move from prototyping to low‑rate initial production. ## Why Work Here - **Impact & Challenge**: Opportunity to redefine a century‑old manufacturing process – ideal for engineers who want to build machines and software that directly shape next‑gen defense components. - **Culture**: Small, tight‑knit team (15–25 people reported); founded by UC Berkeley alumni; early‑stage energy with hands‑on work from concept to production. - **Work Policy**: On‑site / in‑office in Los Angeles (El Segundo) and Colorado offices – not remote. - **Tech Stack**: Uses PostgreSQL, Greenhouse (ATS), NetSuite, Oracle, Java, TypeScript, GraphQL, React, Git – a modern engineering environment. - **Benefits & Perks**: Not extensively documented, but the Built In profile indicates employees report strong growth opportunities and a sense of mission. ## Sources 1. [rangeview.com](https://rangeview.com) 2. [linkedin.com/company/rangeview](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rangeview) 3. [cbinsights.com/company/rangeview](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rangeview) 4. [builtin.com/company/rangeview](https://builtin.com/company/rangeview) 5. [sbir.gov/portfolio/1906867](https://www.sbir.gov/portfolio/1906867) ## Other roles at Rangeview Inc. - [Mechanical Automation / Equipment Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/mechanical-automation-equipment-engineer-rangeview-inc-el-segundo-california-qmv42rzdx4xf) — El Segundo California, United States - [Production/Advanced Manufacturing Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/production-advanced-manufacturing-engineer-rangeview-inc-el-segundo-california-mtgvjq9k7g7t) — El Segundo California, United States - [Director, Quality](https://feeny.ai/job/director-quality-electric-hydrogen-devens-massachusetts-vs5t9rr13f15) — Devens Massachusetts, United States