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Senior Flight Reliability Engineer

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Hawthorne, California, United States SpaceX Full time
Job Title: Senior Flight Reliability Engineer

At SpaceX, we're pushing the boundaries of space exploration and development. As a Senior Flight Reliability Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of our spacecraft.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead mission planning and timeline reviews, coordinating inputs from engineering, production, and mission management teams to identify and mitigate risks.
  • Monitor and assess test or production anomalies for flight risk and work with engineering to resolve issues leading up to launch.
  • Run flight readiness activities, including performing and organizing data reviews, mission workflow, readiness reviews, and post-flight data review and analysis.
  • Assess changes to the vehicle configuration and design modifications for cross-system impacts.
  • Identify and evaluate technical risk to launch operation, build flight rationale, and mitigation plans to manage risks.
  • Work towards the launch chief engineer role, participating in launch operations, coordinating anomaly resolution, and corrective actions to avoid further mishaps.
  • Perform independent technical review and verification of flight hardware and/or software system functionality and reliability.
  • Maintain a system-level knowledge of Falcon 9, Dragon, and ground systems, working with design, build, and operations teams to drive improved reliability.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering or STEM discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies).
  • Knowledge and mastery in various vehicle systems (hardware and analysis), including experience in developing hardware, multi-disciplinary analyses, or hardware/software tests or launch operations.
  • Knowledge of the disciplines necessary for spacecraft flight, including structures, propulsion, avionics, guidance, navigation, and control, flight software, dynamics, launch, and mission operations, systems engineering, and integration.
  • Practical experience in hardware development projects a plus.
  • 1+ years of experience with launch vehicles, spacecraft, or other aerospace systems.
  • Capable of solving complex problems on schedule as an individual or as a member or leader of a team.
  • Strong analytical skills coupled with an excellent ability to communicate with engineers in all disciplines and at every level.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading or working on a multi-disciplinary engineering problem.
  • Ability to quickly grasp knowledge of a diverse range of hardware and analyses that go into making SpaceX missions reliable and successful.
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as MatLab, Python, SQL.
Additional Requirements:
  • Able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs.
  • Willingness to travel in support of hardware test and launch.
Compensation and Benefits:

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks.

You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.