Senior Design Reliability Engineer
Impulse Space•Redondo Beach, CA
•$140,000 - $180,000•Onsite
About The Position
As a Senior Design Reliability Engineer at Impulse, you will own the standardization and implementation of Impulse’s design process. You will lead cross-functional efforts on setting design standards, margining approach, configuration management, and templates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in hardware design and analysis for aerospace, automotive, or high-reliability systems
- Demonstrated experience supporting design-for-manufacturing of builds, integration, or test of primary structures and/or complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
- Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated root cause analysis experience
- Strong theoretical and working knowledge of GD&T
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of demonstrated design reliability experience with spacecraft, launch vehicles, aviation, robotics, or hardware
- Familiarity with AS9100, ISO 9001, or similar quality systems (practical application preferred over documentation focus)
- Demonstrated experience with reliability engineering concepts (FMEA, reliability growth, Weibull analysis)
- Demonstrated background working closely with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated experience supporting rapid development or prototype-to-production transitions
Responsibilities
- Define and document design standards and best practices for structures, propulsion, avionics, composites, mechanisms, and more
- Define and document our margining approach
- Own the design release workflow processes, from CAD to PLM to MRP and ERP
- Define the design review process, templates, and milestones
- Create and manage tools to compile design-informing data and information, traceability of changes, and key decision points
- Provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning
- Develop and implement robust design configuration management processes
- Use build and flight data to influence requirements, assumptions, and decisions
- Act as a specification custodian for our design, margining, configuration, and release processes
- Ensure product integrity by holding the line on quality standards, extreme-owning design containments, and driving corrective actions to completion
- Liaise with build reliability, quality, and flight reliability to solve problems together
Benefits
- long-term incentives, in the form of stock options
- medical, vision & dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
