Enabling human life on Mars is the ultimate goal of SpaceX, a company founded under the belief that a future where humanity explores the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not.
Job Description
The Starship Flight Reliability Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of the Starship and Super Heavy vehicles. This individual will work closely with design teams, build teams, and operations teams to identify, document, and manage risk associated with these vehicles.
Key Responsibilities:
* Take ownership of risk tracking for a Starship Vehicle or component, managing risk throughout testing and flight.
* Support technical reviews, including vehicle state machine reviews (software), joint operations reviews (between ground and vehicle teams), and CONOPs reviews as required.
* Organize and run flight readiness reviews to ensure technical readiness and flight data reviews to track action items and learnings from flight.
* Clearly communicate technical risks to executive leadership.
* Provide real-time support for test and flight as the authority for vehicle risk.
* Support anomaly investigations using tools such as fault trees, fishbones, and 5 whys.
* Influence the implementation of process and tools to balance risk, change, and mission workflow.
* Run projects or tool improvements to help the starship program better manage technical risk.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
* 5+ years of experience with engineering problem solving in design, analysis, or test of systems.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
* 8+ years of professional experience in aerospace engineering field (design, analysis, or test at the large assembly or system level).
* SQL and/or Python experience.
* High proficiency with basic computer applications.
* Experience with anomaly resolution and documentation of anomaly reports and lessons learned databases.
* Experience with engineering risk management, engineering configuration, and change management.
* On console test experience or support of launch and/or large-scale test operations.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
* A self-starter willing to continuously learn new skills.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
* Travel to other SpaceX sites as needed to support test and launch operations.
* Availability to work extended hours and weekends based on test and launch schedules.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
* To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.