Design Reliability Engineering Lead (Equity Eligible)

Venturi Astrolab, Inc.; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership in the company

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible PTO and parental leave

Weekly lunch stipend and on-site perks

Monthly social hour on-site

Job summary

Venturi Astrolab, Inc. seeks a Design Reliability Engineering Manager in Hawthorne, CA to lead end-to-end reliability for lunar rover systems, guiding avionics, power, thermal, and structures.

You will build a reliability team, set design criteria, and own risk reviews to ensure mission-ready hardware. You will develop standards, tooling, and verification approaches, mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement across design processes, with equity benefits and comprehensive health

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM field required.
• 5+ years in reliability, design assurance, or systems engineering for high-consequence hardware.
• 2+ years in people-management or team leadership.
• Experience with FMEA/FMECA and fault-tree analysis requested.
• Experience with MIL-HDBK-217 or physics-of-failure methods desired.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering end-to-end across avionics, mechanisms, power, thermal and structures.
• Build and manage a team of reliability and design assurance engineers.
• Architect design standards and test methodologies.
• Define design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new hardware.
• Own change and risk reviews and translate risk into actionable decisions.
• Develop processes to ensure standards, comprehensive reviews, and mitigated risks.
• Flow reliability requirements down to hardware with margins and derating guidelines.
• Develop analysis tools, templates, checklists, and design guides.
• Mentor engineers on reliability methods and analysis techniques.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Reliability engineering

People management

Systems engineering

FMEA/FMECA

Fault tree analysis

MIL-HDBK-217 methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM field

Job description

Venturi Astrolab, Inc. seeks a Design Reliability Engineering Manager in Hawthorne, CA to lead end-to-end reliability for lunar rover systems, guiding avionics, power, thermal, and structures.

You will build a reliability team, set design criteria, and own risk reviews to ensure mission-ready hardware. You will develop standards, tooling, and verification approaches, mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement across design processes, with equity benefits and comprehensive health