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Design Reliability Engineer (Falcon & Dragon)

SpaceX· Falcon Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $130kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Design Reliability Engineer responsible for ensuring flight hardware and operations meet design requirements for Falcon and Dragon programs, guiding designs from concept to flight, and enabling reliable operations through cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the SpaceX design process and design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and recovery systems
  • Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns
  • Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems
  • Setup new processes to enable reliable aircraft-like operations of launch vehicles and spacecraft
  • Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams.
  • Review vehicle changes to ensure all hardware and operations are qualified
  • Develop specialized design and analysis tools for other engineering groups

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of professional experience in a hardware engineering role

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree in engineering1+ years of hardware engineering experience

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • various other discounts and perks
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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