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Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer (Build Reliability)

SpaceX· Build Reliability - Hawthorne
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Hawthorne, CA$165k - $230kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer focused on avionics and build reliability across design, production, and flight, with hands-on involvement on floor, lab, and in office to drive reliability improvements throughout design to production and operation.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with design, test, and manufacturing through product development and production to ensure the reliability of Avionics parts (i.e. controllers, RIOs, sensors, RF, power systems, solar arrays, wire harnessing, etc.)
  • Responsible for tracking yield, test/inspection escapes, and ensuring past failures and lessons learned are incorporated into NPI
  • 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 quantify/reduce risk and improve reliability of designs and processes
  • Utilize schematics, test equipment, inspection processes, etc. to perform structured electrical root cause analysis of failures identified during the development and production processes to inform design/manufacturing changes
  • Perform gage repeatability and reproducibility studies to validate test systems used for product acceptance
  • 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 electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, manufacturing engineering, chemical engineering, or engineering physics
  • 5+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role

Skills

Required:Interpersonal and collaborative skillsProduction and test of complex electromechanical assembliesQuality tools (Lean, MSA, DOE, SPC, RCA/CA, APQP, PFMEA, control plans)
Nice to have:PCB design/troubleshootingLean quality processes

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • discretionary bonuses
  • 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 + 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave
  • other discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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