Build Reliability Engineer (Falcon/Dragon)

Hawthorne, CAfull timeOn Site

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$100k–$118k

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SpaceX Build Reliability Engineer at SpaceX collaborates with design and manufacturing teams to ensure flight hardware reliability from design through production and operation. The role involves using data to drive reliability improvements and supporting quality objectives across manufacturing, test, and flight.

Responsibilities

Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through product development and production to create quality plans for flight hardware, including identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for functionality and manufacturability, first article and detailed inspection planning, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned
Develop, implement and validate Lean test and inspection processes for new and existing products and process, ensuring that criteria are objective and that quality goals are consistently met
Monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp-up using a suite of quality and analysis tools
Conduct regular build quality reviews to ensure that design intent is achieved and well-communicated; identify opportunities for risk reduction and removal of complexity in designs and processes to improve manufacturability, collaborating with integrated product teams to drive improvements and address high-impact and repeating non-conformances
Investigate failures in production, test and flight, identifying and mitigating the immediate and underlying root causes in order to reduce risk and improve reliability of designs and processes
Contain suspect or known non-conforming product, providing guidance to quality inspectors, technicians, shop supervisors and engineers to assist in quarantining and rework activities
Support the shop floor in continuous improvement and the advancing of a Lean, autonomous production system through creation of standard rework/repair guides, removal of redundant or unnecessary inspection, and improved control and optimization of critical processes

Qualification

1+ years in a manufacturingAdvanced composites systems

Required

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or physics
1+ years in a manufacturing, quality and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

Preferred

Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for the team’s spirit of innovation and mission of improving reliability in cutting-edge technology
Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, or electrical engineering
Demonstrated application of process controls in high volume manufacturing, test, and quality environment
Dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability
Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, measurement systems analysis, design of experiments, statistical process control, 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
Experience developing or supporting any of the following products/processes:
Complex mechanical/structural assemblies
Advanced composites systems

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

SpaceX

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