Senior Spacecraft Build Reliability Engineer (El Segundo)

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Job summary

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Build Reliability Engineer to partner with design and manufacturing teams to scale spacecraft hardware production. You will ensure testability, manufacturability, and reliability of hardware through hands-on testing and data-driven analysis.

The role covers failure investigations, quality, flight reliability, and mission assurance with ownership of regulatory deliverables, risk management, and verification campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, computer science, electrical, manufacturing, mechanical, or material sciences engineering.
• 5+ years professional experience in aerospace, design, quality, or related engineering role.
• Hands-on hardware test, qualification, troubleshooting, or failure analysis experience.
• Commitment to lean quality principles without compromising safety or reliability.
• Demonstrated application of process controls in high volume manufacturing, test, and quality environments.
• Experience generating, processing, and/or analyzing data for production insight.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, with a drive to innovate and improve reliability in cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities

• Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams to create test, manufacturability, and inspection plans for all vehicle hardware.
• Contain suspect or known non-conforming product, providing guidance to quality inspectors, technicians, shop supervisors, and engineers.
• Lead failure investigations in production, test, and operation; identify and mitigate root causes to reduce risk and improve reliability.
• Provide critical peer review of hardware during design reviews and acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
• Perform FMEA, ensure test coverage, change management, and manufacturability of flight hardware.
• Own vehicle level deliverables for regulatory bodies including requirements compliance and verification evidence.
• Support Mission Assurance's risk management and mitigations.

Skills

Data analysis

Process controls

Collaboration

Lean quality

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or related field

Tools

Measurement systems analysis

Design of experiments

Statistical process control

PFMEA

APQP

Control plans

Root cause analysis

Job description

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Build Reliability Engineer to partner with design and manufacturing teams to scale spacecraft hardware production. You will ensure testability, manufacturability, and reliability of hardware through hands-on testing and data-driven analysis.

The role covers failure investigations, quality, flight reliability, and mission assurance with ownership of regulatory deliverables, risk management, and verification campaigns.