Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship) Verified today

Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship)

The HLS Design Reliability team ensures that flight hardware and concepts-of-operations lead to successful mission completion while meeting internal and external design requirements. You will evaluate and guide engineering designs from concept to flight, facilitate cross-disciplinary problem-solving, and work across all SpaceX programs.

What you will do

• Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems.
• Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
• Drive improvements to vehicle design through close integration with hardware teams.
• Perform verification reviews of hardware and systems.
• Lead spacecraft certification efforts through direct interaction with U.S. Government customers.
• Tailor and negotiate requirements and verifications to meet program goals.
• Review vehicle changes to ensure qualification compliance.

Basic qualifications

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

Preferred skills and experience

• 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 industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup.
• Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python and Excel.

Additional requirements

• Must be available to work long hours and weekends as necessary.
• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.