CareerPlan

Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship)

Hawthorne, CAFull-time2026-09-29 → 2026-11-10
Citizens or permanent residents only

Core

Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems, ensuring flight hardware and concepts-of-operations lead to successful mission completion for the Human Landing System (HLS) and Starship.

Role type

Senior IC design reliability engineer (aerospace)

Builds

Flight hardware and concepts-of-operations for the Human Landing System (HLS) and Starship

Domain

Aerospace, spaceflight, human space exploration

Required skills

requirements engineering, design review, verification, standards negotiation, FEA (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS), manufacturing processes, scripting/data analysis

Preferred skills

Master's degree in engineering, experience with aircraft/launch vehicles/spacecraft, customer interface, hands-on manufacturing tools

Technologies

NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, Excel

Responsibilities

Develop design criteria and verification approaches; provide critical peer review of hardware designs and test campaigns; drive design improvements; lead spacecraft certification with U.S. Government customers; review vehicle changes for qualification compliance

Seniority

Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC