Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield) Verified today

About Starshield

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. It is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.

The Role

You will build and lead an electrical hardware reliability team for Starshield. You'll work on identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve the robustness and longevity of PCBAs. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams across electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain disciplines, and working on cutting-edge R&D technology and complex electrical engineering applications.

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

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 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

Additional Requirements

• Able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol tests

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $165,000.00 to $230,000.00

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Base salary is one part of your total rewards package. You may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will receive comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You will accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.