Build Reliability Engineer – Aerospace Valves & Components

United States Digital Space LLC; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Build Reliability Engineer to guide hardware from design through production and operation for Falcon/Starship valves and components. You will work across design engineering and manufacturing to establish quality plans, inspections, and lessons learned, driving reliability-focused process improvements.

You will develop and implement tooling, define inspection requirements, and lead root-cause analyses of failures during ramp-up, ensuring design intent

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required or equivalent.
• Experience in manufacturing, quality, or design engineering roles.
• Preference for Master’s degree and aerospace experience.
• Familiarity with reliability and quality tools and methods.

Responsibilities

• Develop manufacturing, integration, assembly, welding, NDE, cleanliness, and checkout processes from the ground up.
• Identify reliability gaps and implement solutions to improve reliability without slowing build rate.
• Create quality plans for flight hardware, including key characteristics, prototype testing, first article, and inspections.
• Monitor production ramp-up using quality and analysis tools.
• Contain non-conforming product and guide teams in quarantining and rework across sites.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Collaborative mindset

Root-cause analysis

Process improvement mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

Lean principles

Measurement systems analysis

Design of experiments

Statistical process control

APQP

PFMEA

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Build Reliability Engineer to guide hardware from design through production and operation for Falcon/Starship valves and components. You will work across design engineering and manufacturing to establish quality plans, inspections, and lessons learned, driving reliability-focused process improvements.

You will develop and implement tooling, define inspection requirements, and lead root-cause analyses of failures during ramp-up, ensuring design intent