About the role
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
RELIABILITY ENGINEER
The Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the design engineer community towards higher reliability EEE components, avionics, and systems. This person ensures SpaceX can continue to use commercial electronics from a wide range of manufacturers. The Reliability Engineer is a key member that is involved with evaluating the quality and reliability of components for the design community. This engineer will also address unforeseen component issues/failures and bring appropriate groups together to drive work towards closure and builds FEA models to simulate wearout and provide design direction as well as reliability models to assess failure impact on orbit. This work impacts all stages of design and production and must interface with supply chain, design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission as well as to develop and implement accelerated tests to mitigate risks and qualify designs
Lead reliability test planning, methodology and execution
Help Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure
Drive analysis processes for all failures discovered during reliability testing
Build reliability prediction models/Finite Element Models to evaluate product functional performance over mission life conditions
Interface with SpaceX departments such as supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing
Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
Analyze and model implementation options to inform electronics design for reliability, including Material selections; PCB laminates, features (vias, pad, stack up, etc.) specifications, finishes, Component attach; Solder chemistry, reflow profile Underfill s…
