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Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX· Starshield Production
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Hybrid (Hawthorne, CA)$165k - $230kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead and hire a electrical hardware reliability team for SpaceX Starshield, focusing on identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve robustness and longevity of PCBAs; collaborate across electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain to enhance Starshield hardware reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and hire a team of electrical hardware reliability engineers supporting Starshield production
  • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members leading root cause investigations of electrical hardware
  • Align goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to achieve program reliability and rate objectives
  • Collaborate with team members to create personalized career growth plans that build their technical capabilities and accelerate progress toward their professional goals
  • Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes
  • Proactively escalate major hardware concerns, secure appropriate resources, and maintain clear communication to drive timely resolution and team alignment
  • 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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering discipline
  • 3+ years of experience in hardware development, failure analysis, or reliability engineering (internships and co-ops acceptable)
  • 1+ years of experience leading a project, team, or people

Skills

Required:Analytical skillsRoot cause analysisProject leadership
Nice to have:PCB design and reliability

Benefits

  • 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
  • Employee stock purchase plan and potential bonuses
  • Stock or long-term incentives (stock or cash)
  • Discounts and other perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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