Reliability Engineer

SpaceX
Redmond
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 105,000 - 175,000 annuallyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Risk assessment","Analysis","Test planning"]

Support the design engineer community by improving the reliability of EEE components, avionics, and systems. Evaluate component quality across manufacturers, address failures to closure, and plan reliability testing using reliability physics and statistics. Build reliability prediction and finite element models to simulate wearout and assess failure impact on orbit, collaborating with supply chain, design, manufacturing, and production teams.

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Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Support the design engineer community by improving the reliability of EEE components, avionics, and systems. Evaluate component quality across manufacturers, address failures to closure, and plan reliability testing using reliability physics and statistics. Build reliability prediction and finite element models to simulate wearout and assess failure impact on orbit, collaborating with supply chain, design, manufacturing, and production teams.
Location: Redmond
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess mission risk and develop accelerated tests to mitigate risks and qualify designs.
  • •Lead reliability test planning, methodology, and execution, including advising on HALT/HASS assessments for PCBA testing and executing testing campaigns.
  • •Drive analysis processes for failures discovered during reliability testing and help drive avionics EEE piece part reliability issues toward closure.
  • •Build reliability prediction models and finite element models to evaluate product functional performance across mission life conditions.
  • •Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure, interfacing with supply chain, design, and production/manufacturing.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 105,000 - 175,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid ParentalPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
  • •5+ years of experience in semiconductor, package, and/or PCBA reliability.
  • •2+ years of reliability modeling methods to predict product life and analyze test data statistically.
  • •Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for failure mechanisms.
  • •Familiarity with reliability statistics including Weibull analysis and robust MTTF determination.
Experience:SemiconductorsPCBA reliabilityElectronics manufacturing
Education:Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationRisk assessmentAnalysisTest planning
Tech Stack:Finite Element ModelsFEASherlockANSYSWeibull AnalysisHALTHASSFMEAFMEAsJESD47AEC-Q100SEU/MBU analysis

Eligibility

Nationality:US National

Company Brief

SpaceX
Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers, aiming to reduce space transportation costs and enable human life on Mars through reusable launch vehicles and integrated space systems.
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States
Founded: 2002
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