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Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Reliability - Bastrop
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Lead a team focused on the reliability of Starlink hardware from factory to field, guiding design, manufacturing, test, and field performance to minimize failures and downtime while communicating findings to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers and specialists focused on hardware reliability and field performance for the Starlink User Terminal Kit, including user terminals, Wi-Fi routers, power supplies, and cables.
  • Allocate resources across new product qualification campaigns, production reliability priorities, and field hardware investigations to ensure appropriate technical coverage, timely execution, and rapid troubleshooting of failures
  • Develop individual team members through technical mentorship, clear ownership, and opportunities aligned with individual growth and the strategic goals of the Starlink program
  • Partner closely with hardware design, software, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to proactively influence current and future designs and maximize reliability across the product lifecycle
  • Manage or lead technical investigations with tight timelines concerning isolated or fleet-wide performance or hardware issues that affect Starlink customers
  • Develop and execute reliability qualification strategies for new and existing products to maximize field life, minimize early-life failures, and demonstrate readiness for mass production
  • Design and execute environmental, mechanical, electrical, RF, and system-level reliability testing tailored to product architecture, use conditions, and identified failure mechanisms to qualify changes in high volume manufacturing
  • Automate reliability test execution, data analysis, and reporting using appropriate data visualization and engineering tools
  • Define and monitor ongoing reliability testing and monitoring strategies to assess manufacturing process health and identify long-term reliability risks
  • Define and monitor critical hardware and performance field metrics, such as product return rates
  • Oversee production quality activities including containments, MRB, defect processing, quality metrics, training, and applicable command media for factory compliance
  • Identify manufacturing inefficiencies that impact product reliability and drive process improvements
  • Maintain applicable quality system and ISO 9001 requirements
  • Lead root cause investigations for qualification, production, and field failures; drive corrective actions
  • Perform telemetry and console/log analysis and hands-on debugging to drive root cause and corrective actions for failed PCBAs in the field
  • Understand Wi-Fi standards and how the Starlink network operates

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials engineering, manufacturing engineering, aerospace engineering, or another engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of experience executing complex engineering projects in design qualification, manufacturing, hardware reliability, reliability test, or a production environment
  • 1+ years of experience in a leadership position leading a team of 3+ engineers

Skills

Required:Hardware reliabilityEnvironmental, mechanical, electrical, RF testingRoot cause investigationsLeadership and mentoring
Nice to have:Test automation and data analysisTelemetry/log analysis

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer; competitive compensation and benefits (as per SpaceX offerings)
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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