Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer

SpaceX, founded with the vision of making humanity a multi-planetary species, is seeking a Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer to play a crucial role in their mission to enable human life on Mars. This position is vital in supporting the design engineer community towards higher reliability EEE components and systems.

As a Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer, you will:

• Provide leadership and technical guidance within the Hardware and EEE Parts Reliability group
• Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure
• Use reliability physics of failure models and statistics to assess mission risks
• Lead reliability test planning, methodology, and execution
• Analyze failures discovered during reliability testing
• Build reliability prediction models to evaluate product performance over mission life conditions
• Advise on parts selection based on reliability and manufacturing processes
• Interface with various SpaceX departments including supply chain, design, and production
• Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate investigations for corrective actions
• Analyze and model options for electronics design reliability
• Advise on HALT/HASS testing and reliability assessments for PCBA testing
• Execute testing campaigns to assess hardware and component reliability

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of space technology, directly contributing to SpaceX's ambitious goals. You'll be part of a team pushing the boundaries of what's possible in space exploration, with the ultimate aim of making life multi-planetary.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in reliability engineering, with experience in semiconductor, package, and/or PCBA reliability. You should be proficient in reliability modeling, accelerated testing methods, and have a deep understanding of failure mechanisms.

Join SpaceX and be part of a team that's not just dreaming about the future, but actively building it. Your work will have a direct impact on some of the most advanced spacecraft and rocket systems in the world, contributing to missions that are expanding our understanding of the universe and paving the way for human exploration beyond Earth.

If you're passionate about space exploration, have a keen eye for detail, and want to work on cutting-edge technology that's literally reaching for the stars, this role at SpaceX could be your next giant leap.