Sr. Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

• ◆Responsible for troubleshooting, root cause, failure investigations, and corrective actions for Starshield production non-conforming hardware
• ◆Utilize design schematics, test equipment, and inspection processes to identify the physics of the failure
• ◆Take extreme ownership in containing suspect or known non-conforming products, driving root cause investigation progress and providing regular updates to technicians, production leadership, and engineering to assist in quarantine and rework activities
• ◆Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes
• ◆Work closely with the respective test engineers for your products to keep a close feedback loop improving test assets to reduce false failures and increase test coverage
• ◆Maximize return on investment for test and inspection processes, determining where to apply lean process checks which ensure that criteria are objective and that reliability goals are consistently met
• ◆Identify areas for electrical design and manufacturing improvements through new product development cycles, improving final yield by applying best practices to designs and establishing repeatable process control
• ◆Maintain thorough documentation of failure analysis findings, test results, and corrective actions
• ◆Collaborate with on-orbit reliability team, driving timely improvements to production through on-orbit investigation findings
• ◆Provide mentorship and guidance to more junior engineers on the team
• ◆Serve as technical expert in electronics manufacturing processes to challenge

and steer the department towards value added testing

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering discipline
• ✓5+ years in hardware development, failure analysis, or reliability engineering
• ✓2+ years of experience with electrical test equipment (e.g., multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers) used to verify hardware functionality

• ✓Master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent engineering discipline
• ✓8+ years of industry experience working with electronic hardware
• ✓Experience with digital and mixed-signal designs, power electronics, or RF electronics using oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies, and soldering equipment
• ✓Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and root causing electrical hardware failures
• ✓PCBA fabrication experience (familiar with solder, flux, underfill, staking, reflow, temperature control, etc.)
• ✓Experience with environmental testing such as HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and TVAC
• ✓Experience with RF test equipment (e.g. vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer) and concepts such as S-parameters, impedance matching, and antenna designs
• ✓Proficiency in programming languages (e.g. Python, SQL, C, C++)
• ✓Knowledgeable of IPC standards such as IPC-A-610G
• ✓Experience developing or supporting any of the following products/processes:
• ✓Analog, digital, and mixed signal circuit testing
• ✓Design for excellence (DFX), root cause, derating, and related analyses
• ✓RF hardware testing
• ✓Digital communications interfaces including SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, and RS422
• ✓Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• ✓Design of Experiments (DOE)
• ✓Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, DOE Level Q clearance, or the ability and willingness to obtain one

• ✓Able to work extended hours and weekends as needed to support critical path development and/or critical on-orbit operations
• ✓An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing