Reliability Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>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&nbsp;enabling human life on Mars.</p></div><p><strong>RELIABILITY ENGINEER</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Lead reliability test planning, methodology and execution</li> <li>Help Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure</li> <li>Drive analysis processes for all failures discovered during reliability testing</li> <li>Build reliability prediction models/Finite Element Models to evaluate product functional performance over mission life conditions</li> <li>Interface with SpaceX departments such as supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing</li> <li>Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure</li> <li>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 selections</li> <li>Advise on HALT/HASS testing and reliability assessments for PCBA testing</li> <li>Execute testing campaigns to assess reliability of hardware and components</li> </ul> <p><strong>BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field</li> <li>5+ years of experience in semiconductor, package, and/or PCBA reliability</li> <li>2+ years of work experience reliability modelling methods to predict product life, and statistical techniques to analyze test data</li> </ul> <p><strong>PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>MS in Mechanical Engineering or related field</li> <li>Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for different failure mechanisms</li> <li>Experience facilitating FMEAs and leading cross functional teams in reliability analysis, prediction and correlation</li> <li>Familiar with reliability statistics, including Weibull Analysis</li> <li>Familiarity with FEA and PCB Design Analysis capability (Sherlock/ANSYS or alternative)</li> <li>Robust Determination of MTTF</li> <li>Single Event Upset / Multiple Bit Upset (SEU/MBU) analysis</li> <li>Experienced with life testing methods (HALT/HASS, ESS, JESD47, AEC-Q100)</li> </ul> <p><strong>ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong> </strong>Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed</li> </ul> <p><strong>COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:</strong><br><br>Pay Range:<br>Level 1: $105,000.00 - $145,000.00<br>Level 2: $120,000.00 - $175,000.00<br><br></p> <p>Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis