Senior Build Reliability Engineer Verified today

The Role

As a Senior Build Reliability Engineer, you will ensure every satellite K2 ships is built to fly. You own quality and reliability from raw materials arrival through vehicle handoff at launch. You will investigate failures, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence. You will write quality plans and build processes that enable scaling from prototype to high-rate production without compromising reliability.

You will work hands-on alongside engineers and technicians, shaping how hardware gets built. You will influence design decisions using production floor data and help establish manufacturing practices for Commercial, National Security, and Science missions spanning LEO, MEO, GEO, Cislunar, and Deep Space.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute quality plans across assigned build programs, from receiving inspection through integration, test, and vehicle handoff at the launch site
• Lead failure investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action efforts; drive containment activities that reduce risk and improve reliability across production
• Feed lessons learned from build non-conformances and test failures back into the design cycle, influencing future component iterations towards simpler, more robust, and more repeatable flight unit builds
• Develop and continuously improve quality processes including non-conformance workflows, process controls, and PFMEAs for complex manufacturing and integration operations
• Collaborate with manufacturing and design engineering teams to embed quality into the product lifecycle, ensuring quality plans support lean manufacturing and rapid production without sacrificing reliability
• Support change control implementation by working with engineering teams to evaluate the quality and reliability impact of design and process changes
• Define, track, and report key quality metrics and production reliability trends; build dashboards that provide leadership visibility into build health
• Serve as the Build Reliability representative during design reviews, readiness reviews, and production milestone gates

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline
• 6+ years of experience in a high volume, rapid production environment in a manufacturing, integration, quality and/or design engineering role
• Strong production and hardware manufacturing experience, including manufacturing of a combination of machined parts, mechanisms, electrical assemblies, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), and harnessing
• Experience developing and executing quality plans across the full build lifecycle
• Ability to work hands-on in a production environment alongside technicians and manufacturing engineers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present quality data and risk assessments to engineering and leadership