Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)
$140,000–$205,000 year
On-siteHawthorne, California, United States
Job Summary
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. Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data-driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring. 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. This role involves working on cutting-edge R&D technology and complex applications of electrical engineering in the industry.
Required 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
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- 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
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