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Build Reliability Engineer (Falcon/Dragon)

SpaceX· Build Reliability - Hawthorne
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $117.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Build Reliability Engineer focused on ensuring reliability of flight components and production assemblies for Falcon/Dragon programs. Acts across design, manufacturing, test, and flight to drive reliability improvements through data-driven analysis, Lean processes, and cross-functional collaboration in office, factory floor, and lab environments.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through product development and production to create quality plans for flight hardware, including identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for functionality and manufacturability, first article and detailed inspection planning, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned
  • Develop, implement and validate Lean test and inspection processes for new and existing products and process, ensuring that criteria are objective and that quality goals are consistently met
  • Monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp-up using a suite of quality and analysis tools
  • Conduct regular build quality reviews to ensure that design intent is achieved and well-communicated; identify opportunities for risk reduction and removal of complexity in designs and processes to improve manufacturability, collaborating with integrated product teams to drive improvements and address high-impact and repeating non-conformances
  • Investigate failures in production, test and flight, identifying and mitigating the immediate and underlying root causes in order to reduce risk and improve reliability of designs and processes
  • 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 Lean, 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 or physics
  • 1+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Interpersonal and collaboration skillsLean / quality toolsQuality planning and inspectionRoot cause analysis

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 plus 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
  • Employee stock purchase plan (optional)
  • potential discretionary bonuses
  • stock and long-term incentives (eligibility)
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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