Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

• 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

• Collaborate with team members to create personalized career growth plans that build their technical capabilities and accelerate progress toward their professional goals

• Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes

• Proactively escalate major hardware concerns, secure appropriate resources, and maintain clear communication to drive timely resolution and team alignment

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

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