Space Reliability Engineer: Ensure Mission-Critical Systems

Lockheed Martin; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 79,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Reliability Engineer to support human-centric and robotic space systems. You will drive reliability analyses, shape architectures, model complex systems, and influence hardware design to maximize lifespan.

Cross-disciplinary collaboration and early design influence are key. The role requires space or missile systems experience, systems engineering understanding, and proficiency in modeling and statistics.

Qualifications

• Experience with space, missile, or related systems.
• Understanding or experience with systems engineering concepts.
• Understanding of mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, electrical circuit design, and environmental effects on performance.
• US Citizenship required.
• Graduate level coursework related to Mathematics, Operations Research, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering or Physics.
• Proficiency in mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, electrical circuit design, and environmental effects on performance.
• Missile or space system design and test experience with subsystems or fields outside of Systems Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Drive Mission Success: Provide reliability-centric recommendations and analysis within a highly collaborative specialty engineering team.
• Shape System Architecture: Perform technical trade studies and evaluations of potential system architectures during early program development.
• Model Complex Systems: Develop, coordinate, and execute reliability modeling, simulations, and predictions as part of the central reliability team.
• Influence Hardware Design: Recommend advanced design variations, test methods (such as HALT/HASS), and statistical process control procedures to maximize product lifespan.
• Evaluate Program Technicalities: Assess both internal and external designs to ensure overall compliance with mission requirements and government agency objectives.
• Transform Raw Data: Compile and analyze performance reports, process control statistics, and flight/test variables affecting products.
• Architect Predictive Risk Models: Develop mathematical and statistical models to isolate hardware units, batches, or software processes posing excessive failure risks.

Skills

Space systems experience

Systems engineering concepts

Mathematical modeling

Statistical analysis

Electrical circuit design

Environmental effects on performance

Tools

MIL-HDBK standards

Job description

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Reliability Engineer to support human-centric and robotic space systems. You will drive reliability analyses, shape architectures, model complex systems, and influence hardware design to maximize lifespan.

Cross-disciplinary collaboration and early design influence are key. The role requires space or missile systems experience, systems engineering understanding, and proficiency in modeling and statistics.