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Aerospace System Safety Engineer

2 months ago


Hawthorne, California, United States SpaceX Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Starship Flight Reliability Engineer to join our team at SpaceX. As a key member of our Starship program, you will be responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of our spacecraft systems.

Key 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Demonstrated ability to code in Python and other languages
  • Ability to think out-of-the-box and motivate others to think creatively about potential failure scenarios
  • Experience with physics, statistics, probability theory
  • Ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Compensation and Benefits

SpaceX offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including long-term incentives, comprehensive medical coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, and paid time off.