Hardware Reliability Engineer (Build Reliability)
SpaceX· Build Reliability - Hawthorne
Hawthorne, CA$115k - $140kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Hardware Reliability Engineer focusing on build reliability for avionics and production assemblies. Collaborates across design, test, and manufacturing to ensure reliability from design through production and flight, using data-driven methods to improve manufacturability and reduce risk.
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
- 1+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies)
Skills
Required:Interpersonal and collaboration
Nice to have:PCB design/troubleshooting
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
- Paid vacation (3 weeks)
- 10+ paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave
- Discounts and other perks
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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