Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starshield)

• ◆Lead and hire a team of hardware reliability engineers supporting Starshield production
• ◆Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members leading root cause investigations of subassembly and process failures
• ◆Align goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to achieve program reliability, yield, and rate objectives
• ◆Collaborate with team members to create personalized career growth plans that build their technical capabilities and accelerate progress toward their professional goals
• ◆Drive improvements to products and processes that are not meeting design or production

through data-driven decisions, using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes

• ✓Lead containment activities for nonconforming hardware, including isolation of suspect product, impact assessment, and coordination of disposition and recovery
• ✓Improve build processes, work instructions, and production documentation to reduce defects and increase first-pass yield across assigned subassemblies
• ✓Lead qualification of production processes for assigned subassemblies, establishing process readiness before rate production
• ✓Lead PFMEA reviews with manufacturing and design partners to identify process risks, prioritize controls, and drive risk reduction
• ✓Proactively escalate major hardware and process concerns, secure appropriate resources, and maintain clear communication to drive timely resolution and team alignment
• ✓Maintain thorough documentation of failure analysis findings, process investigations, test results, and corrective actions
• ✓Collaborate with the on-orbit reliability team, driving timely improvements to production through on-orbit investigation findings

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, process engineering, materials science, or other engineering discipline
• ✓3+ years of experience in hardware development, manufacturing process engineering, failure analysis, or reliability engineering
• ✓1+ years of experience leading a project, team, or people

• ✓Strong analytical skills with an excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with partners in all disciplines at multiple levels in the organization
• ✓Demonstrated ability to advocate for and implement robust solutions that stand the test of time
• ✓Experience deploying large-scale and/or high-impact solutions in a manufacturing environment
• ✓Experience improving manufacturing processes, work instructions, and production documentation to increase yield and reduce defects
• ✓Experience leading containment, material review, or nonconformance response for production hardware
• ✓Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: PCBA production, battery assembly, solar array manufacturing, pressure vessels or tanks, or electromechanical assemblies (actuators, reaction wheels, torque rods, star trackers, or similar)
• ✓Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and root causing hardware or process failures
• ✓Experience with statistical process control, process capability analysis, yield analysis, and defect Pareto methods
• ✓Familiarity with manufacturing process controls such as soldering, bonding, welding, torque, cleanliness, leak/pressure testing, or similar process-critical operations
• ✓Experience with environmental testing such as HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and TVAC
• ✓Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance, or the ability and willingness to obtain one

• ✓Able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• ✓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 test.