Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX • Hawthorne, CA

1d • $140,000 - $205,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This is an opportunity to build and lead an electrical hardware reliability team for Starshield. In addition to hiring top-notch electrical engineers you will work on identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve the robustness and longevity of our PCBAs. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain, to enhance the overall reliability of Starshield hardware. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge R&D technology and some of the most complex applications of electrical engineering in the industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering discipline
• 3+ years of experience in hardware development, failure analysis, or reliability engineering (internships and co-ops acceptable)
• 1+ years of experience leading a project, team, or people

Nice To Haves

• 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 with digital and mixed-signal designs, power electronics, or RF electronics using oscilloscopes, signal generators, 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
• Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance, or the ability and willingness to obtain one

Responsibilities

• Lead and hire a team of electrical hardware reliability engineers supporting Starshield production
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members leading root cause investigations of electrical hardware
• Align goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to achieve program reliability 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 corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes
• Proactively escalate major hardware concerns, secure appropriate resources, and maintain clear communication to drive timely resolution and team alignment
• 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

Benefits

• company stock
• long-term cash awards
• discretionary bonuses
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior