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Electrical Engineer, Hardware Reliability (Build Reliability)

SpaceX· Build Reliability - Hawthorne
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Hawthorne, CA$115k - $170kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Electrical Engineer focused on hardware reliability for flight components and production, collaborating across design, test, and manufacturing to drive reliability from design through 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 or computer engineering
  • 1+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Nice to have:PCB design/troubleshootingElectromechanical assembly productionQuality tools (Lean, MSA, DOE, SPC, PFMEA, APQP, CP, problem solving)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discounts and other perks
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan opportunities (stock/long-term incentives possible)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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