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SR. PROGRAM RELIABILITY ENGINEER

As a Program Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for critical hardware flight worthiness evaluation activities associated with current and future government customer spacecraft missions. You’ll work directly with the primary mission manager and engineering teams to ensure all customer requirements and concerns are met and addressed for launch.

In this role you will directly support the execution of flight worthiness assessments through all phases of launch vehicle build. You’ll be an advocate for our customer by acting as the point of contact to implement customer feedback and lessons learned to improve flight worthiness review execution and customer satisfaction.

In this position you will also represent the SpaceX Quality and Build Reliability org to our government customers and be responsible for assuring successful execution on our contractual deliverables for flight worthiness assessments on all Falcon and Starship government missions. As the rate of government missions increases, the team's primary goal is to achieve maximum flight reliability confidence with minimum impact to the engineering community by implementing and executing plans to minimize review scope and increase confidence in SpaceX systems and processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify and develop process improvements to streamline and standardize flight worthiness assessments
• Develop tools and methodologies to support multiple flightworthiness assessments while minimizing disruption to the engineering community
• Serve as primary point of contact for planning and execution of flight worthiness assessments of government missions while working with multidisciplinary teams to answer technical questions and respond to information requests
• Be the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for reliability and navigation related customer questions
• Create technical content for the introductory briefs and TIM’s in support of the flight worthiness assessments
• Collaborate with government partners to drive change where necessary to improve efficiency of the execution of flight worthiness assessments
• Drive customer questions to closure and track program performance metrics.
• Plan, schedule, and staff customer factory tours for the process areas applicable to the hardware being reviewed

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
• 5+ years of professional experience managing technical projects 

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Hands-on professional experience with launch vehicle processing
• Highly detail oriented, diligent, and hard working with excellent customer interface skills
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues under tight deadlines
• Experience programming with SQL and/or Python
• Experience working with external customers

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be willing to travel to other SpaceX offices, vendors, and customers as necessary (up to 25% travel)
• Must be willing to work long hours and occasional weekends when necessary to support launch and critical project timelines
• Ability to pass Air Force background checks for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: 

Pay range:         

Program Reliability Engineer/Senior: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00/per year           

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• 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.  

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com.