Starship Flight Reliability Engineer

1 day 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.

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to work on the Starship vehicle, a reusable spacecraft designed for long-duration missions to the Moon, Mars, and other destinations in the solar system. As a Starship Flight Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of the vehicle's systems, working closely with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate potential risks.

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 ensure safe and reliable operations
  • 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 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
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)
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 & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), fault trees, distribution fitting, or hypothesis testing
  • Programming skills, preferably with familiarity in MATLAB and Python
Compensation and Benefits:

SpaceX offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including 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.

Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.

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