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Sr. Launch Reliability Engineer (Launch Pads & Recovery)

SpaceX· Launch Reliability - East
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Cape Canaveral, FLfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer focused on ensuring reliability of launch pad and recovery systems across SpaceX programs (Falcon 9, Dragon, Starship). Combines hands-on field work with design, manufacturing, and operations to improve reliability, quality, and launch cadence.

Responsibilities

  • Reliably launch astronauts and other payloads by ensuring the systems, processes, and infrastructure critical to launch operations and rocket recovery are efficiently designed, maintained, and executed
  • Interact with the various disciplines responsible for the development and build of Starship and Falcon launch pad systems to ensure optimized process health
  • Identify high-risk processes and problems during launch pad and recovery system refurbishment and integrated operations, and proactively implement improvements to these processes to ensure operational excellence
  • Find smart solutions to the biggest problems by leading root cause and corrective action investigations
  • Maintain a feedback loop to drive hardware inputs that enable a reliable and rapid launch cadence; using data to make the quality landscape transparent and drive prioritization of resolving high impact issues
  • Participate in preliminary design review (PDR)/critical design review (CDR) and work with design reliability to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification/mitigation, and that appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods have been considered
  • Be dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
  • 5+ years of experience in a quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role

Skills

Required:Engineering judgment and problem solvingRoot cause analysisData analysis / use of data to drive decisions
Nice to have:Design for quality (DFQ)Design for manufacturability (DFM)Lean quality
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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