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Spacecraft Safety and Reliability Specialist

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Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Starship Flight Reliability Engineer to join our team at SpaceX. As a key member of our System Safety and Reliability team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of our Starship vehicle.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform quantitative and qualitative reliability analyses for complex systems, including the identification of potential failure modes and scenarios.
  • Review company-wide lessons learned and support the integration of those learnings into new designs and operations to increase safety and reliability.
  • Review systems, identify failure modes, and develop strategies to mitigate risks and hazards.
  • Collaborate with engineers to review and mitigate risks and hazards, and to develop effective implementation of flight safety and system safety strategies.
  • 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.
  • Develop and maintain technical documents for internal and external customers in support of contract milestones, licensing efforts, or other customer requirements.
Requirements
  • 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.
Preferred Skills and Experience
  • Advanced degrees in engineering with reliability analysis experience through research and/or internships.
  • Familiarity with launch vehicle architectures and fundamental systems (avionics, propulsion, structures, guidance, navigation, and control, etc.).
  • Experience with Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), fault trees, distribution fitting, or hypothesis testing.
  • Programming skills, preferably with familiarity in MATLAB and Python.
  • Demonstrated ability to code in Python and other languages.
  • Ability to think out-of-the-box, motivate people to think imaginatively of how things can break.
  • Experience with physics, statistics, probability theory.
  • Ability to explain complex concepts to the layperson, strong communication skills, and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment.
  • Practical experience in hardware development.
  • Professional experience with complex mechanical systems.
Compensation and Benefits

Base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, 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.