Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer (Build Reliability)
Senior engineer on SpaceX's Build & Hardware Reliability team in Hawthorne, CA, ensuring the reliability of avionics and flight hardware from design through production: tracking yield and test escapes, leading electrical root-cause failure analysis, and applying Lean/SPC quality tools on the factory floor. Requires an engineering degree and 5+ years in manufacturing/quality/design engineering; pay
- Compensation
- $165K–$230K / yr
- Location
- Hawthorne, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Hardware
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer, mechanical, aerospace, materials, manufacturing, chemical engineering, or engineering physics
- 5+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role
- Ability to work extended hours, weekends, and offsite as needed
Nice to have
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills with enthusiasm for the team's mission
- Hands-on experience designing and/or troubleshooting PCBAs
- Experience supporting production and test of complex electromechanical assemblies
- Knowledge of quality tools: Lean principles, measurement systems analysis, design of experiments, statistical process control, root cause analysis/corrective action, APQP, metrology, PFMEA, control pl
- Dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability
Full description
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
SR. HARDWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (BUILD RELIABILITY)
The Build and Hardware Reliability organization at SpaceX is an inclusive, inter-disciplinary team that is committed to the reliability of flight components and production assemblies. Your breadth of exposure as a Hardware Reliability Engineer will be immense as you collaborate with other core groups at SpaceX, guiding the hardware from design to production and operation. You use data to understand the factors that drive reliability, and support quality objectives in design and development teams to drive improvements in reliability in manufacturing, test and flight. You have the ability to dive deep on the details to identify, understand and solve difficult technical problems and also utilize a system level approach to prioritize issues for the vehicle as a whole. You thrive in a hands-on environment and will spend time in the office, on the factory floor, and in the lab to execute on the mission to make humanity interplanetary.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Partner with design, test, and manufacturing through product development and production to ensure the reliability of Avionics parts (i.e. controllers, RIOs, sensors, RF, power systems, solar arrays, wire harnessing, etc.)
- Responsible for tracking yield, test/inspection escapes, and ensuring past failures and lessons learned are incorporated into NPI
- Develop, implement and validate Lean test and inspection processes for new and existing products and process, ensuring that criteria are objective and that quality goals are consistently met
- Monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp-up using a suite of quality and analysis tools
- Conduct regular build quality reviews to ensure that design intent is achieved and well-communicated; identify opportunities for risk reduction and removal of complexity in designs and processes to improve manufacturability, collaborating with integrated product teams to drive improvements and address high-impact and repeating non-conformances
- Investigate failures in production, test and flight, identifying and mitigating the immediate and underlying root causes in order to quantify/reduce risk and improve reliability of designs and processes
- Utilize schematics, test equipment, inspection processes, etc. to perform structured electrical root cause analysis of failures identified during the development and production processes to inform design/manufacturing changes
- Perform gage repeatability and reproducibility studies to validate test systems used for product acceptance