Lead Electrical Hardware Reliability Engineer

SpaceX

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Hawthorne, CA
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$165,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
104 days ago
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TL;DR · Lead Electrical Hardware Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Electrical Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starshield) The Lead Electrical Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starshield) will build and lead an electrical hardware reliability team supporting Starshield production. This role involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve the robustness and longevity of PCBAs for government use in earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. You will provide technical mentorship, lead root cause investigations, and drive corrective actions using yield and defect monitoring. Key responsibilities include collaborating with electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain teams to align goals and maintain documentation of failure analysis. Required skills include experience with digital and mixed-signal designs, power electronics, or RF electronics using oscilloscopes, signal generators, and soldering equipment. Candidates should also possess experience with PCBA fabrication, environmental testing like HALT/HASS, and RF test equipment.

What you'll do

  • Lead and hire a team of electrical hardware reliability engineers to support Starshield production.
  • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members during electrical hardware root cause investigations.
  • Drive corrective actions for products failing design specifications using data-driven yield and defect monitoring.
  • Proactively escalate major hardware concerns and secure necessary resources to ensure timely resolution.
  • Maintain thorough documentation of failure analysis findings, test results, and corrective actions.
  • Drive production improvements based on findings from the on-orbit reliability team.
  • Align team goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to meet reliability objectives.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
  • 3+ years of experience in hardware development, failure analysis, or reliability engineering.
  • 1+ years of experience leading a project, team, or people.
  • Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance, or the ability and willingness to obtain one (preferred).
  • Experience with digital and mixed-signal designs, power electronics, or RF electronics using standard test equipment (preferred).
  • Experience with environmental testing such as HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and TVAC (preferred).
  • Experience with RF test equipment and concepts such as S-parameters, impedance matching, and antenna designs (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.

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