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Launch Reliability Engineer

SpaceX· Launch Reliability - West
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full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Advocate for mission assurance at the launch site, partnering with Flight Reliability, Launch Reliability, and Launch Operations to ensure reliable, efficient processing and to support Falcon 9, Dragon, and Starship programs.

Responsibilities

  • Reliably launch astronauts and other payloads by ensuring vehicle, payload, and spacecraft processing is efficiently designed and executed
  • Interact with disciplines responsible for Falcon 9, Dragon, Starship, and launch pad systems to ensure optimized process health
  • Identify high-risk processes and problems during vehicle processing or refurbishment, and proactively implement improvements to these processes to ensure operational excellence
  • Lead root cause and corrective action investigations to find smart solutions to major problems
  • Maintain a feedback loop to drive hardware inputs enabling reliable, rapid launch cadence; use data to make the quality landscape transparent and drive prioritization of resolving high-impact issues
  • Participate in preliminary design reviews (PDR) / critical design reviews (CDR) and collaborate with design reliability to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification/mitigation, and appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
  • 1+ years of professional or internship experience in a quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree in engineering or physics

Benefits

  • Potential long-term incentives, including company stock or long-term cash awards
  • Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan terms
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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