Reliability Engineer Verified today
About the Role
The Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the design engineer community towards higher reliability EEE components, avionics, and systems. You will ensure SpaceX can continue to use commercial electronics from a wide range of manufacturers, evaluating component quality and reliability for the design community. You will address component issues and failures, bring appropriate groups together to drive closure, and build FEA models to simulate wearout and provide design direction as well as reliability models to assess failure impact on orbit. This work impacts all stages of design and production and requires interfacing with supply chain, design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production.
Your Responsibilities
- Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission and develop and implement accelerated tests to mitigate risks and qualify designs
- Lead reliability test planning, methodology and execution
- Drive avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure
- Drive analysis processes for all failures discovered during reliability testing
- Build reliability prediction models and Finite Element Models to evaluate product functional performance over mission life conditions
- Interface with SpaceX departments including supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing
- Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
- Analyze and model implementation options to inform electronics design for reliability, including material selections, PCB laminates, component attach methods, solder chemistry, reflow profile and underfill selections
- Advise on HALT/HASS testing and reliability assessments for PCBA testing
- Execute testing campaigns to assess reliability of hardware and components
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 5 or more years of experience in semiconductor, package, and/or PCBA reliability
- 2 or more years of work experience in reliability modelling methods to predict product life and statistical techniques to analyze test data
Preferred Skills and Experience
- MS in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for different failure mechanisms
- Experience facilitating FMEAs and leading cross functional teams in reliability analysis, prediction and correlation
- Familiar with reliability statistics, including Weibull Analysis
- Familiarity with FEA and PCB Design Analysis capability such as Sherlock or ANSYS
- Robust determination of MTTF
- Single Event Upset and Multiple Bit Upset (SEU/MBU) analysis
- Experience with life testing methods including HALT/HASS, ESS, JESD47, AEC-Q100
Additional Requirements
- Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range:
Level 1: $105,000 to $145,000
Level 2: $120,000 to $175,000
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 at SpaceX. You may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law. Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.