Senior Electrical Hardware Reliability Lead (Starshield)

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Lead Electrical Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starshield) to build and lead a team focused on identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve PCBAs' robustness and longevity. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain teams on reliability improvements and R&D efforts.

The role requires guiding a team through root-cause investigations, aligning priorities with production, and driving data-driven corrective

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or related field.
• 3+ years of hardware development, failure analysis, or reliability engineering.
• 1+ years of experience leading a project, team, or people.

Responsibilities

• Lead and hire a team of electrical hardware reliability engineers supporting Starshield production.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members leading root cause investigations of electrical hardware.
• Align goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to achieve program reliability and rate objectives.
• Collaborate with team members to create personalized career growth plans that build their technical capabilities and accelerate progress toward professional goals.
• Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes.
• Proactively escalate major hardware concerns, secure appropriate resources, and maintain clear communication to drive timely resolution and team alignment.
• Maintain thorough documentation of failure analysis findings, test results, and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with on‑orbit reliability team, driving timely improvements to production through on‑orbit investigation findings.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Failure analysis

Reliability engineering

Team leadership

Root cause investigations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Signal generators

Digital multimeters

Power supplies

RF test equipment

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Lead Electrical Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starshield) to build and lead a team focused on identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve PCBAs' robustness and longevity. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain teams on reliability improvements and R&D efforts.

The role requires guiding a team through root-cause investigations, aligning priorities with production, and driving data-driven corrective