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Launch Reliability Engineer (Launch Pads & Recovery)

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

About the role

Launch Reliability Engineer focused on ensuring reliability of flight and ground components for SpaceX launch pads and recovery operations, collaborating across design, manufacturing, operations, and maintenance to enable reliable, high cadence launches including Falcon 9, Dragon, and Starship programs.

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 PDR/CDR and work with design reliability to ensure DFQ, DFM, risk quantification/mitigation, and appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods
  • Be dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Engineering fundamentals
Nice to have:Quality tools

Benefits

  • (Not explicitly listed in the provided text)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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