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Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship)

SpaceX· Crew Starship
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $160kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Design Reliability Engineer responsible for developing design criteria, leading verification activities, and ensuring flight hardware and operations meet requirements across SpaceX's Crew Starship/HLS programs.

Responsibilities

  • Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems.
  • Ensure SpaceX design process and criteria are followed for flight, launch, and/or recovery systems, including: provide critical peer reviews and approvals of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns; drive improvements to vehicle design through close integration with hardware teams; perform verification reviews of hardware and systems.
  • Ensure customer design criteria/requirements are addressed for flight systems, including: lead spacecraft certification efforts with U.S. Government customers; tailor and negotiate requirements and verifications to meet program goals; review vehicle changes to ensure qualification compliance.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years professional experience in fabrication, assembly, and/or testing

Skills

Required:Engineering design criteria formulationDesign reviews and peer reviewVerification and qualification
Nice to have:Systems engineering coordination

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 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
  • Paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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