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Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX· Starshield Production
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Hawthorne, CA$165k - $230kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior hardware reliability engineer focused on electrical hardware for Starshield satellites, responsible for failure analysis, root cause investigations, and implementing corrective actions to improve PCBAs’ reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for troubleshooting, root cause, failure investigations, and corrective actions for Starshield production non-conforming hardware
  • Utilize design schematics, test equipment, and inspection processes to identify the physics of the failure
  • Take extreme ownership in containing suspect or known non-conforming products, driving root cause investigation progress and providing regular updates to technicians, production leadership, and engineering to assist in quarantine and rework activities
  • Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes
  • Work closely with the respective test engineers for your products to keep a close feedback loop improving test assets to reduce false failures and increase test coverage
  • Maximize return on investment for test and inspection processes, determining where to apply lean process checks which ensure that criteria are objective and that reliability goals are consistently met
  • Identify areas for electrical design and manufacturing improvements through new product development cycles, improving final yield by applying best practices to designs and establishing repeatable process control
  • Maintain thorough documentation of failure analysis findings, test results, and corrective actions
  • Collaborate with on-orbit reliability team, driving timely improvements to production through on-orbit investigation findings
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to more junior engineers on the team
  • Serve as technical expert in electronics manufacturing processes to challenge requirements and steer the department towards value added testing

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering discipline
  • 5+ years in hardware development, failure analysis, or reliability engineering
  • 2+ years of experience with electrical test equipment (e.g., multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers) used to verify hardware functionality

Skills

Required:Root cause analysisElectrical test equipmentFailure analysis

Benefits

  • Pay Range: $165,000.00 - $230,000.00 per year
  • Stock or long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
  • 10% clearance differential (up to $20,000 annually) for active clearance
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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