Hardware Reliability Engineer — Components (Avionics)

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, dental

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

3 weeks vacation

10+ holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

SpaceX's Starshield program seeks a Hardware Reliability Engineer to strengthen the design engineer community by improving reliability of EEE components and systems used in high-stakes missions. You will coordinate corrective actions across design, manufacturing, and supply chain, driving reliability tests and failure investigations.

The role requires strong collaboration, rigorous analysis, and the ability to translate reliability data into design improvements across avionics and PCB

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, or another STEM discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in hardware development, hardware troubleshooting, or data analysis (internships, co-ops, and extracurricular experiences are applicable).
• 1+ years of experience with Python or SQL.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for team leadership and technical guidance for the Hardware and EEE Parts Reliability group.
• Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure.
• Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission, as well as to develop and implement accelerated tests to mitigate risks and qualify designs.
• Lead reliability test planning, methodology, and execution.
• Drive analysis processes for all failures discovered during reliability testing.
• Build reliability prediction models and finite element models to evaluate product functional performance over mission life conditions.
• Advise EEE designers on parts selection based on part reliability and manufacturing processes.
• Interface with SpaceX groups such as supply chain, design engineering, and production/manufacturing.
• Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure.
• Analyze and model implementation options to inform electronics design for reliability, including material selections, PCB laminates, features (vias, pad, stack up, etc.) specifications, finishes, component attachment, solder chemistry, reflow profile, and underfill selections.
• Advise on HALT/HASS testing and reliability assessments for PCBA testing.
• Execute testing campaigns to assess reliability of hardware and components.

Skills

Hardware development

Data analysis

Python

SQL

Python/SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Job description

SpaceX's Starshield program seeks a Hardware Reliability Engineer to strengthen the design engineer community by improving reliability of EEE components and systems used in high-stakes missions. You will coordinate corrective actions across design, manufacturing, and supply chain, driving reliability tests and failure investigations.

The role requires strong collaboration, rigorous analysis, and the ability to translate reliability data into design improvements across avionics and PCB