SpaceX is hiring a
Flight Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join SpaceX as a Sr. Flight Reliability Engineer for Starship and contribute to enabling human life on Mars by identifying, documenting, and managing risk for the Starship and Super Heavy vehicles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 3+ years of professional experience with complex engineering problem solving in design, analysis, or test of systems

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of risk tracking for a Starship Vehicle or component (Starship, Super Heavy booster, launch pad, Engine) and manage risk of that item throughout testing and flight
• Support technical reviews including vehicle state machine reviews (software), joint operations reviews (between ground and vehicle teams), and CONOPs reviews as required to understand and provide feedback to operations
• Organize and run flight readiness reviews to ensure technical readiness and flight data reviews to track action items and learnings from flight. Drive actions and findings to completion. Use risk, mission workflow, and change as tools to ensure technical readiness
• Clearly communicate technical risks to the executive leadership team
• Real time (on console) support for test and flight as the authority for vehicle risk, communicating to leadership and executive team as required. Drive on-console resolution of technical risks to achieve successful test or flight outcome
• Support anomaly investigations as needed via use of tools such as fault trees, fishbones, and 5 whys. Work to resolve anomalies on day of test and launch in real time on console
• Influence and drive the implementation of process and tools to an appropriate balance for the Starship program, including risk, change, and mission workflow
• Run projects or tool improvements to help the starship program better manage and understand technical risk
• Support regulatory and customer reviews as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in aerospace engineering field (design, analysis, or test at the large assembly or system level)
• High proficiency with basic computer applications (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email)
• SQL and/or Python experience
• Experience with anomaly resolution and documentation of anomaly reports and lessons learned databases
• Experience with engineering risk management, engineering configuration, and change management
• On console test experience or support of launch and/or large-scale test operations
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work remotely (if working in location other than Starbase) and clearly and concisely communicate weekly progress and roadblocks
• Self-starter and willing to continuously learn new skills to drive the process and technology of Starship hardware development and testing

Benefits

• Pay range: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00/per year
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 10 or more paid holidays per year