Hardware Reliability Engineer – Satellite Systems (Redmond)

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

401(k) plan

Health insurance

Dental & vision insurance

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Shuttle service

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA seeks a Hardware Reliability Engineer for Starlink to diagnose production issues and drive end-to-end root cause investigations to improve on-orbit hardware reliability.

You will work hands-on with sub-assemblies, learn the design, manufacturing, and test processes, and collaborate across teams to implement robust production methods.

The role offers a competitive salary, stock incentives, 401(k), health coverage, paid time off, and shuttle service to the Redmond office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 2+ years in a design or manufacturing engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies).
• Hands-on failure analysis experience.
• Ability to work extended hours, weekends, and offsite as needed.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on failure analysis to drive root-cause and corrective action of production, test, and on-orbit failures to ultimately improve product reliability, quality, and factory throughput.
• Develop, validate, and implement production processes for existing and next-gen hardware with objective of maintaining consistent quality and high throughput
• Create data analysis programs to identify production yield, failure rates, and implement statistical process controls
• Conduct regular build quality reviews to ensure that design intent is achieved and well-communicated; identify opportunities for risk reduction, and removal of complexity in designs and processes to improve manufacturability
• Collaborate with production to reliably reduce in-process inspections & maintain inspection plans
• Determine the appropriate Quality Management System requirements around traceability, non-conformance, and configuration management for the program
• Define ongoing reliability testing strategy to monitor the manufacturing process health, and screen for long-term reliability defects caused by process and component variability

Skills

SQL

C++

C

Python

Root cause analysis

Statistical process control

Mechatronics

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

PFMEA

DOE

SPC

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA seeks a Hardware Reliability Engineer for Starlink to diagnose production issues and drive end-to-end root cause investigations to improve on-orbit hardware reliability.

You will work hands-on with sub-assemblies, learn the design, manufacturing, and test processes, and collaborate across teams to implement robust production methods.

The role offers a competitive salary, stock incentives, 401(k), health coverage, paid time off, and shuttle service to the Redmond office.