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title: 'Quality Coordinator at NOX METALS'
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# Quality Coordinator at NOX METALS

- **Company:** NOX METALS
- **Location:** Detroit, MI
- **Compensation:** $50k–$60k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nox-metals/15c99017-4e8b-46e4-812d-0c7b24132f06

## Job description

Quality Coordinator | Nox Metals | Detroit, MI Nox Metals is a technology company in Detroit supplying metal. Our customers build aircraft, defense systems, and the machines that make them. When our material is wrong, their program slips. This is the first quality role at Nox. You will not be handed a binder and told to maintain it. You will build the day to day system and grow into owning the whole function as we scale. Full time, on site. Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with flexibility to cover second and weekend shifts as needed. You will:

- Run receiving inspection. Verify mill certs against the material and flag what does not match before it hits the floor
- Keep lot traceability intact through the cut, and build the cert packages that ship with every order
- Log nonconformances, contain the material, and track corrective actions to closure
- Handle customer complaints and returns, and draft the response
- Write the SOPs people actually use and keep the versions controlled
- Keep calibration current and track incoming defects by supplier
- Prepare audit documentation and support customer and third-party audits
- Audit the floor to confirm people run the process as written
- Work closely with the software team to ideate the solutions for quality issues discovered on the floor

You are:

- Experienced in quality, inspection, or a hands-on manufacturing role, and ready to step up
- Familiar with quality management systems, ISO 9001 or AS9100
- Careful with documentation, because it is the product during an audit
- Comfortable reading a mill cert and measuring material, or quick to learn
- Comfortable building the program instead of inheriting one
- Able to hold a line with a shift lead who is behind on a delivery

Nice to have:

- Metals background. Plate, bar, rounds, mill certs, heat lots
- Internal auditor training
- Aerospace or defense supply chains
- Exposure to a site preparing for certification

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## About NOX METALS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NOX METALS is an AI-powered metals supplier that provides instant quotes and rapid delivery of cut-to-size aluminum plate to American manufacturers through vertically integrated, software-driven factories.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $11.5M seed round per company website, plus $4.6M pre-seed from Y Combinator per LinkedIn – conflicting reports)
- **Headquarters**: Detroit, Michigan, United States (2703 23rd Street, Detroit, MI 48216)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Zane Hengsperger (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Manufacturing, metals processing, industrial supply chain
- **Target customers**: Job shops, OEMs, Tier 1/2/3 suppliers, aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturers (B2B)
- **Mission**: To reindustrialize America by supplying manufacturers at warp speeds and lower prices, with the goal of enabling 100x more parts made in the USA.

## Products & Services
- **Gondor (Ordering Platform)**: An AI-powered system where customers upload material lists or paste part specs, and the AI parses, prices, and returns a quote in under 60 seconds. Offers real-time order tracking, mill certs, and one-click reordering.
- **Nox Nest (AI Nesting Engine)**: An ML-trained bin-packing solver that evaluates hundreds of thousands of cut combinations to find the optimal path, reducing scrap and creating predictive inventory based on likely future orders.
- **Predictive Inventory**: AI that anticipates what American manufacturers need and stocks material before customers even place an order.
- **AI Schedule**: Machine-learning trained scheduling and job timing to lower lead times.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total funding: $11.5M seed round (per company website) plus a $4.6M pre-seed round led by Y Combinator (per LinkedIn/Tracxn)
  - Team size: ~22 (per Y Combinator profile; LinkedIn shows 8 employees but 24 active job postings, suggesting rapid growth)
  - Headcount growth: +27.3% monthly (LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (led pre-seed; Summer 2025 batch), Jared Friedman (Primary Partner at YC)
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $11.5M seed round in 2026; 24 open positions; expanding from aluminum plate/block into steel, tube, and sheet; LinkedIn followers 4,148 with +8.3% monthly growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated factories**: NOX builds and operates its own automated cutting facilities, removing middlemen, brokers, and manual scheduling layers.
- **AI-first operations**: ML-driven nesting, scheduling, and inventory prediction deliver quotes in seconds and lead times in days rather than weeks.
- **Lower overhead**: Automation (robots pick, cut, package, label) reduces human bottlenecks, enabling better pricing and faster throughput.
- **Real-time visibility**: Every order tracked from quote to delivery, with mill certifications attached.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scale the Detroit factory, expand product offerings into steel, tube, and sheet, and continue building out the software platform (Gondor, Nest, AI Schedule).
- **Direction**: Become the fastest and lowest-cost supplier to America’s industrial base by treating the factory as a software product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup backed by Y Combinator; mission-driven to reindustrialize America; fast-paced environment where software and hardware meet.
- **Work environment**: On-site in Detroit, MI (2703 23rd Street). Roles span software engineering (perception, full-stack), factory operations, shift leads, sales, and IT/SecOps.
- **Perks & highlights**: Opportunity to work with advanced manufacturing technology (AI, robotics, automated cutting lines); competitive salaries ($80K–$150K for engineering roles); direct impact on the supply chain of American manufacturing.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building automated factories that are “the product” – software engineers work alongside factory operators to optimize real-time production.

## Sources
1. [NOX METALS Website](https://noxmetals.co/)
2. [Y Combinator Company Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nox-metals)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/noxmetals)
4. [Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nox-metals)

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