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SpaceX · 2 days ago

Launch Reliability Engineer

Vandenberg, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$110K/yr - $130K/yr

1+ years exp

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. The Launch Reliability Engineer is responsible for advocating mission assurance at the launch site, ensuring efficient and reliable operational processes to support mission success for manned spaceflight and Mars colonization.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Reliably launch astronauts and other payloads by ensuring vehicle, payload, and spacecraft processing is efficiently designed and executed

Interact with the various disciplines responsible for the development and build of Falcon 9, Dragon, Starship, etc., and launch pad systems to ensure optimized process health

Identify high-risk processes and problems during vehicle processing or refurbishment, and proactively implement improvements to these processes to ensure operational excellence

Find smart solutions to the biggest problems by leading root cause and corrective action investigations

Determine high-risk processes and problems during vehicle processing or refurbishment, and proactively implement improvements to these processes to ensure operational excellence

Maintain a feedback loop to drive hardware inputs that enable a reliable and rapid launch cadence; using data to make the quality landscape transparent and drive prioritization of resolving high-impact issues

Participate in preliminary design review (PDR)/critical design review (CDR) and work with design reliability to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification/mitigation, and that appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods have been considered

Qualification

Quality engineeringLean principlesSix SigmaRoot cause analysisAdvanced product quality planningMetrologyProcess failure mode effects analysisBachelor’s degreeMechanical systems experienceElectro-mechanical systems experienceComposites systems experience

Required

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or physics

1+ years of professional or internship experience in a quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role

Ability to pass Air Force background check for Vandenberg Space Force Base

Available to work extended hours, nights, and weekends when required by mission milestones

Ability to work 1st shift: Nominal work hours 7:00am - 5:00pm

Preferred

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (e.g. aerospace, mechanical, etc.)

Experience supporting production of complex electro-mechanical, mechanical or composites systems in high volume work centers and/or during production ramp-up

Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, root cause analysis and corrective action, advanced product quality planning (APQP), metrology, process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and various problem solving approaches

Dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability