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Senior Build Reliability Engineer

K2 Space· Quality
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Los Angeles, CA$140k - $175kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Build Reliability Engineer responsible for owning quality and reliability from raw materials to launch, driving root-cause investigations, implementing scalable quality processes, and partnering with manufacturing and design teams to enable high-rate satellite production while maintaining reliability across LEO to deep space missions.

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute quality plans across assigned build programs, from receiving inspection through integration, test, and vehicle handoff at the launch site
  • Lead failure investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action efforts; drive containment activities that reduce risk and improve reliability across production
  • Feed lessons learned from build non-conformances and test failures back into the design cycle, influencing future component iterations towards simpler, more robust, and more repeatable flight unit builds
  • Develop and continuously improve quality processes including non-conformance workflows, process controls, and PFMEAs for complex manufacturing and integration operations
  • Collaborate with manufacturing and design engineering teams to embed quality into the product lifecycle, ensuring quality plans support lean manufacturing and rapid production without sacrificing reliability
  • Support change control implementation by working with engineering teams to evaluate the quality and reliability impact of design and process changes
  • Define, track, and report key quality metrics and production reliability trends; build dashboards that provide leadership visibility into build health
  • Serve as the Build Reliability representative during design reviews, readiness reviews, and production milestone gates

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline
  • 6+ years of experience in a high volume, rapid production environment in a manufacturing, integration, quality and/or design engineering role
  • Strong production and hardware manufacturing experience, including manufacturing of a combination of machined parts, mechanisms, electrical assemblies, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), and harnessing
  • Experience developing and executing quality plans across the full build lifecycle
  • Ability to work hands-on in a production environment alongside technicians and manufacturing engineers
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present quality data and risk assessments to engineering leadership

Skills

Required:Quality planningRoot cause analysisNon-conformance managementData analysis and reporting
Nice to have:PFMEA

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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