Design Reliability Engineer – Spaceflight Hardware

Future Ventures; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Design Reliability Engineer for Falcon & Dragon to ensure that flight hardware and operations meet rigorous design criteria throughout concept to flight. You will lead design reviews, develop criteria and verification approaches, and help establish processes for reliable launcher and spacecraft operations, collaborating with cross-functional hardware teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, problem solving, and a data-driven approach to improve vehicle designs while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of professional hardware engineering experience.
• Master’s degree in engineering preferred.
• Experience with aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, or aerospace systems.
• Experience with at least one commercial FEA package (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS).
• Hardware ownership on an award-winning project or competition.
• Experience with electromechanical design, testing, fabrication for high-performance or safety-critical applications.
• Hands-on manufacturing tools experience (mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composites).
• Scripting and data analysis using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the SpaceX design process and design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and recovery systems
• Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns
• Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems
• Setup new processes to enable reliable aircraft-like operations of launch vehicles and spacecraft
• Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams
• Review vehicle changes to ensure all hardware and operations are qualified
• Develop specialized design and analysis tools for other engineering groups

Skills

Hardware engineering

Aerospace systems experience

Scripting (VB/Python/Matlab/Excel)

Design review & criteria development

Troubleshooting & failure analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering (preferred)

Tools

NASTRAN

ABAQUS

ANSYS

Mills & lathes (manufacturing tools)

Electronics assembly

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Design Reliability Engineer for Falcon & Dragon to ensure that flight hardware and operations meet rigorous design criteria throughout concept to flight. You will lead design reviews, develop criteria and verification approaches, and help establish processes for reliable launcher and spacecraft operations, collaborating with cross-functional hardware teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, problem solving, and a data-driven approach to improve vehicle designs while