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Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starlink Aviation)

SpaceX· Starlink Aviation Reliability
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Woodinville, WA$135k - $210kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Hardware Reliability Engineer focused on Starlink Aviation products, responsible for ensuring reliability and quality through design, manufacturing, test, and fleet operations.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute on long term reliability test during the initial product development and qualification
  • Responsible partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through product development and production to ensure manufacturability and process reliability for flight hardware
  • Develop, implement, and validate test and inspection processes for new and existing products, ensuring that criteria are objective and that design and reliability goals are consistently met
  • Execute projects to improve reliability partnering with design, software, test, manufacturing engineering, and production teams
  • Investigate anomalies and failures in test, production, and the fleet to identify the root cause and mitigate the immediate and underlying root causes to reduce risk and improve reliability of structural and electrical systems on the Starlink Aviation system (phased-array, Wi-Fi, harnessing, and power supply PCBAs)
  • Drive corrective actions to prevent factory escapes of defective hardware
  • Drive systematic process improvements to mitigate for potential failure modes
  • Contain suspect or known non-conforming product, providing guidance to quality inspectors, technicians, shop supervisors and engineers to assist in quarantining and rework activities
  • Support the shop floor in continuous improvement and the advancing of a autonomous production system through creation of standard rework/repair guides, removal of redundant or unnecessary inspection, and improved control and optimization of critical processes

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Reliability engineeringTest planning and execution
Nice to have:Data analysis / programmingStatistical methodsProblem-solving

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
  • discretionary bonuses and stock purchase plan
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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