Flight Reliability Engineer - Falcon & Dragon

United States Digital Space LLC; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Design Reliability Engineer to support Falcon & Dragon programs, developing and verifying reliability criteria across flight hardware and systems. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering teams to ensure mission success.

The role entails establishing verification strategies, peer reviews, and hands-on problem solving for launch vehicles and spacecraft, with ITAR and long hours as part of the job.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of professional hardware engineering experience.
• Experience with aerospace systems and launch vehicles.
• Experience with commercial FEA packages (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS).
• Hands-on with manufacturing tools and processes (mills, lathes, electronics, composites).

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the design criteria are followed for flight, launch, and recovery systems.
• Provide peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews and qualification campaigns.
• Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems.
• Set up processes to enable reliable aircraft-like operations of launch vehicles and spacecraft.
• Drive improvements to vehicle design 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

Master's degree in engineering

Fabrication & testing

Aerospace systems

FEA software: NASTRAN/ABAQUS/ANSYS

Project ownership on engineering teams

Electromechanical design

Manufacturing tools & processes

Material selection / make vs buy

Scripting: VB, Matlab, Python, Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

FEA software: NASTRAN/ABAQUS/ANSYS

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Design Reliability Engineer to support Falcon & Dragon programs, developing and verifying reliability criteria across flight hardware and systems. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering teams to ensure mission success.

The role entails establishing verification strategies, peer reviews, and hands-on problem solving for launch vehicles and spacecraft, with ITAR and long hours as part of the job.