Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship)

SpaceX•Hawthorne, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The HLS Design Reliability team is responsible for ensuring that flight hardware and concepts-of-operations lead to successful completion of missions while meeting or exceeding both internal and external design requirements. We perform a unique engineering role, evaluating and guiding engineering designs from concept to flight. We facilitate cross-disciplinary action and problem-solving across all SpaceX programs and staff.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
1+ years professional experience in fabrication, assembly, and/or testing.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
Experience with aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, or other aerospace systems.
Experience with aircraft, launch vehicle, or spacecraft requirements and standards.
Experience with standards and requirement negotiation.
Excellent customer interface skills.
Experience with at least one commercial FEA package (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS).
Hands on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup, etc.
Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python and Excel.

Responsibilities

Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems.
Ensure that the SpaceX design process & design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and/or recovery systems, including: Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
Drive improvements to vehicle design through close integration with hardware teams.
Perform verification reviews hardware and systems.
Ensure that the customer design criteria/requirements are addressed for flight systems, including: Lead spacecraft certification efforts through direct interaction with U.S. Government customers.
Tailor and negotiating requirements and verifications to meet program goals.
Review vehicle changes to ensure qualification compliance.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Short and long-term disability insurance
Life insurance
Paid parental leave
Various other discounts and perks
3 weeks of paid vacation
10 or more paid holidays per year
Paid sick leave
Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
Potential discretionary bonuses
Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan