Senior Build Reliability Engineer - Spacecraft Production

K2Spacecorporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

K2 Space in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Build Reliability Engineer to ensure satellites are built to fly, owning quality from materials to launch. You will investigate failures, identify root causes, and establish scalable processes for high-rate manufacturing while influencing design with data.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop PFMEAs, and drive quality initiatives across multiple programs, ensuring reliability for missions from LEO to deep space.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 6+ years in high-volume, rapid production environments in manufacturing, integration, quality or design engineering roles.
• Strong production and hardware manufacturing experience (machined parts, mechanisms, electrical assemblies, PCBAs, harnessing).
• Experience developing and executing quality plans across full build lifecycle.
• Hands-on in production environments with technicians and manufacturing engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to present data and risk assessments to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute quality plans across assigned build programs, from receiving inspection through integration, test, and vehicle handoff at the launch site.
• Lead failure investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action efforts; drive containment activities to reduce risk and improve reliability across production.
• Feed lessons learned from build non-conformances and test failures back into the design cycle, influencing future component iterations.
• Develop and continuously improve quality processes including non-conformance workflows and PFMEAs.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and design engineering teams to embed quality into the product lifecycle.
• Support change control by evaluating quality and reliability impact of design and process changes.
• Define, track, and report key quality metrics and production reliability trends; build dashboards for leadership visibility.
• Serve as Build Reliability representative during design reviews, readiness reviews, and production milestone gates.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Aerospace engineering

Root cause analysis

Production hands-on

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

AS9100D familiarity

Job description

K2 Space in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Build Reliability Engineer to ensure satellites are built to fly, owning quality from materials to launch. You will investigate failures, identify root causes, and establish scalable processes for high-rate manufacturing while influencing design with data.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop PFMEAs, and drive quality initiatives across multiple programs, ensuring reliability for missions from LEO to deep space.