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Sr. Launch Reliability Engineer (Launch Pads & Recovery)

SpaceX· Launch Reliability - East
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Cape Canaveral, FLFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior reliability engineer focused on mechanical and structural aspects of launch pads and recovery hardware, supporting Starship and Falcon systems from design through production, operation, and maintenance to ensure reliable launch and recovery operations.

Responsibilities

  • Reliably launch astronauts and other payloads by ensuring the systems, processes, and infrastructure critical to launch operations and rocket recovery are efficiently designed, maintained, and executed
  • Partner with the mechanical teams responsible for the development, build, and refurbishment of Starship and Falcon launch pad systems to ensure optimized process health and hardware performance
  • Identify high-risk mechanical and structural processes and problems during launch pad and recovery system build, activation, and refurbishment, and proactively implement improvements to these processes to ensure operational excellence
  • Find smart solutions to the biggest problems by leading root cause and corrective action investigations
  • Maintain a feedback loop to drive hardware inputs that enable a reliable and rapid launch cadence; using data to make the quality landscape transparent and drive prioritization of resolving high impact issues
  • Participate in preliminary design review (PDR)/critical design review (CDR) and work with design reliability to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification/mitigation, and that appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods have been considered
  • Be dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in a mechanical, manufacturing, or design engineering role

Skills

Required:Mechanical integrity and reliabilityRoot cause analysis
Nice to have:DFQ/DFMQuality tools (Lean, Six Sigma, PFMEA, APQP, control plans, metrology, NDE)Project ownership
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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