SpaceX Launch Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability of flight and ground components for launch operations and rocket recovery. Collaborate across teams to drive quality improvements and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
Reliably launch astronauts and other payloads by ensuring the systems, processes, and infrastructure critical to launch operations and rocket recovery are efficiently designed, maintained, and executed
Interact with the various disciplines responsible for the development and build of Starship and Falcon launch pad systems to ensure optimized process health
Identify high-risk processes and problems during launch pad and recovery system refurbishment and integrated operations, and proactively implement improvements to these processes to ensure operational excellence
Find smart solutions to the biggest problems by leading root cause and corrective action investigations
Maintain a feedback loop to drive hardware inputs that enable a reliable and rapid launch cadence; using data to make the quality landscape transparent and drive prioritization of resolving high impact issues
Participate in preliminary design review (PDR)/critical design review (CDR) and work with design reliability to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification/mitigation, and that appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods have been considered
Be dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability
Qualification
1+ years of experience in qualityADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTSAvailable to work extended hoursPosition may require standingITAR REQUIREMENTS
Required
Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
1+ years of experience in quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role
Preferred
Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline (e.g. aerospace, mechanical, etc.)
Experience supporting production of complex electro-mechanical, mechanical or composites systems in high volume work centers and/or during production ramp-up
Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, root cause analysis and corrective action, advanced product quality planning (APQP), metrology, process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and various problem solving approaches
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg
Available to work extended hours, nights, and weekends when required by mission milestones
Position may require standing, bending and working directly with hardware on the floor for extended periods of time
