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Reliability Engineer

SpaceX· Starlink Satellite Reliability
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Redmond, WA$105k - $145kPosted 3w ago

About the role

Reliability Engineer supporting design engineers to improve EEE components, avionics, and systems reliability; involved in evaluating quality, addressing failures, building FEA models, and providing reliability assessments to influence design and production.

Responsibilities

  • Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission as well as to develop and implement accelerated tests to mitigate risks and qualify designs
  • Lead reliability test planning, methodology and execution
  • Help Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure
  • Drive analysis processes for all failures discovered during reliability testing
  • Build reliability prediction models/Finite Element Models to evaluate product functional performance over mission life conditions
  • Interface with SpaceX departments such as supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing
  • Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
  • Analyze and model implementation options to inform electronics design for reliability, including Material selections; PCB laminates, features (vias, pad, stack up, etc.) specifications, finishes, Component attach; Solder chemistry, reflow profile Underfill selections
  • Advise on HALT/HASS testing and reliability assessments for PCBA testing
  • Execute testing campaigns to assess reliability of hardware and components

Qualifications

  • BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in semiconductor, package, and/or PCBA reliability
  • 2+ years of work experience reliability modelling methods to predict product life, and statistical techniques to analyze test data

Skills

Required:Reliability physics of failureReliability statisticsFinite Element Modeling (FEM)
Nice to have:HALT/HASS testingFMEA facilitation

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives in the form of company 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 time in Washington State
  • Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to SpaceX Redmond office (Mon-Fri)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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