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SENIOR DIRECTOR – RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

OVERVIEW:

This position requires an experienced engineering leader and an established expert in reliability engineering of complex space systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and lead a team of Reliability Engineering experts to ensure high reliability requirements are met for Satellite constellation.
• Define reliability allocations across all components and sub-systems to meet overall system goals, and fault tolerance architecture.
• Drive implementation of probabilistic modeling techniques for overall system reliability predictions:
  • Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis,
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA),
  • Reliability Block Diagram analysis (RBD),
  • Single Event Upset / Multiple Bit Upset  (SEU/MBU) analysis.
• Apply environmental predictions from mission operation simulations to reliability prediction models.
• Drive reliability analysis modeling throughout design / development process.
• Monte Carlo simulations for material, process, manufacturing, environment, usage variations.
• Implement performance testing/life test strategy (HALT/HASS, ESS, ALT, RGT) as appropriate to identify, find, and fix, design/process flaws.
• Provide critical input to risk management plan for satellite launch, deployment, and operations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• MS in Reliability Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in design for high reliability space systems
• Previous work experience in electronic package design as well as qualification methodologies for silicon and custom ASIC packages.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• PhD in Reliability Engineering
• Technical expert in the selection of technologies to be used in state of the art electronics.
• Expert in Reliability modeling and prediction methodologies.
• Highly experienced in electronics manufacturing technologies, PCB materials and fabrication, component package types and reliability comparisons.
• Experienced in new product development, with new technologies, and driving evaluations, test and verification for space systems.
• Demonstrable expert knowledge, and experience with reliability predictions for component package technologies (CSPs;  LGAs / BGAs / CGAs, custom Die packages)
• Experienced with GMW-3172, SMC-S-016
• Strong project management skills in successfully coordinating teams to drive technology development and verification test for reliability assessments, with aggressive schedules.
• Well established knowledge in component level / board level physics of failure and reliability test methods, and correlation of reliability prediction tools with measured results
• Experienced with mechanism reliability prediction and space tribology.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about 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.

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