Starship Flight Reliability Engineer
4 weeks ago
At SpaceX, we're pushing the boundaries of space exploration and development. As a Starship Flight Reliability Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the safety and reliability of our Starship systems.
Responsibilities:- Perform quantitative and qualitative reliability analyses for complex systems
- Review company-wide lessons learned and support integrating those learnings in new designs and operations to increase safety and reliability
- Review systems, identify failure modes, scenarios, and implement strong engineering controls
- Work with engineers to review and mitigate risks and hazards
- Work with design reliability and operational teams to define approaches, assumptions, and success criteria for integrating high reliability with rapid manufacturing and launch operations
- Simulate a variety of failure modes that the launch vehicle may experience and the impact they have on achieving a safe orbit and meeting mission requirements
- Write technical documents for internal and external customers in support of contract milestones, licensing efforts, or other customer requirements, including hazard reports
- Provide mission support to Starship, Falcon, Dragon operations and reliability organizations as needed
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, physics, statistics, or math
- 1+ years of experience with engineering problem solving in design, analysis, or test of systems
- Advanced degrees in engineering with reliability analysis experience through research and/or internships
- Familiarity with launch vehicle architectures and fundamental systems
- Experience with Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), fault trees, distribution fitting, or hypothesis testing
- Programming skills, preferably with familiarity in MATLAB and Python
- Competitive salary range: $95,000 - $130,000 per year
- Long-term incentives, including company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
- Discretionary bonuses and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. If you're passionate about space exploration and development, and have the skills and experience to contribute to our mission, we encourage you to apply.
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