EEE Component Reliability Engineer

The EEE Component 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 help ensure robust qualification of our custom silicon by planning, executing, and documenting appropriate reliability testing.  This work impacts all stages of design and production and must interface with supply chain, design & test engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production.

• →Lead component reliability test planning, methodology and execution
• →Help drive 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 & test engineering, and production/manufacturing
• →Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
• →Execute testing campaigns to assess reliability of hardware and components

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 3+ years of experience in semiconductor product engineering or reliability
• 1+ years of work experience touching reliability testing methodologies (JEDEC/AEC-Q100)
• Experience with embedded C programming

• MS in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Familiarity building HTOL hardware/software, and execution of reliability testing of semiconductor products
• Experience using bench tools for electrical analysis (oscilloscopes, waveform generators, SMUs)
• Familiarity with semiconductor ATE testing and bench analysis
• Experienced with life testing methods (HALT/HASS, HTOL, ESS, JEDEC, AEC-Q100)
• Familiar with reliability statistics, including Weibull Analysis
• Familiarity with FEA and PCB Design Analysis capability (Sherlock/ANSYS or alternative)
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed

• 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.  

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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.