Starship Flight Reliability Engineer

2 weeks ago

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

Join SpaceX as a Starship Flight Reliability Engineer and contribute to the development of cutting-edge technologies that will enable human life on Mars.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced reliability engineer to join our team at SpaceX. As a Starship Flight Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of our Starship vehicle, which will play a critical role in our mission to make humanity a multi-planetary species.

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 to mitigate risks
  • Work with engineers to review and mitigate risks and hazards
  • Collaborate with design reliability and operational teams to define approaches, assumptions, and success criteria for integrating high reliability with rapid manufacturing and launch operations
  • Simulate various 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
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 (internships and project teams qualify)
  • 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 & 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 the above concepts to the lay-person, strong communication skills, ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
  • Practical experience in hardware development
  • Professional experience with complex mechanical systems
Benefits:
  • 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 the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through 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
ITAR Requirements:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), a refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or an asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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.

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