EEE Parts Reliability Engineer

$100,000 - $120,000/Yr

SpaceX - Hawthorne, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Hawthorne, CA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The EEE Parts Reliability Engineer at SpaceX is responsible for ensuring the reliability of electronic, electrical, and electro-mechanical components used in flight systems. This role involves collaborating with various design teams, conducting failure analysis, and implementing corrective actions to enhance component reliability. The engineer will utilize advanced testing and analysis techniques to assess risks and improve the quality of parts used in spacecraft, ultimately contributing to SpaceX's mission of enabling human life on Mars.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for team leadership and technical guidance within the EEE Parts Reliability group
• Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risks towards closure
• External customer coordination on reliability risk assessments and EEE part approvals
• Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission for components and solder joints
• Advise EEE customers on parts selection based on part reliability and manufacturing processes
• Independently apply technical concepts to resolve complex issues, and make decisions in creative and effective ways
• Interface with SpaceX departments such as supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing
• Support failure analysis and destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
• Develop accelerated test profiles for component-level screening and qualification testing
• Perform accelerated testing of components and solder joints and develop derating specifications for components
• Process issues within SpaceX's non-conformance system for items requiring failure analysis investigations and DPA
• Coordinate, drive, and perform EEE parts root cause failure analysis and DPA from initial assessment to a Corrective Actions report in EEE's internal Failure Analysis / Destructive Physical Analysis Lab
• Evaluate electrical, thermal, and mechanical characteristics of integrated circuits, components, sub-components, and PCBAs to determine root cause of failure
• Generate failure reports and recommend corrective actions to prevent recurrence of problems
• Leverage failure analysis and DPA results to interact with design, process, and production teams to implement corrective actions, containment efforts, and risk assessments
• Serve as technical failure analysis and DPA liaison within the SpaceX certification program
• Identify optimum analytical approaches to critical problems
• Develop methods to track metrics on all known failure analyses and DPA's to resolve systematic issues and their root cause
• Conduct innovative use of new analytical tools, equipment and methodologies
• Maintain and oversee failure analysis lab equipment calibration, consumables, and safety practices
• Operate autonomously and safely all EEE Failure Analysis / Destructive Failure Analysis Lab equipment, tools, and machinery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, physics, electrical engineering, or applied engineering
• 1+ years of experience with EEE part reliability, failure analysis, DPA, and qualification; or EEE part design and construction, wafer fabrication, electronic packaging, electronic materials; or materials characterization, material stress testing, or material stress analysis

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, physics, electrical engineering, or applied engineering
• 3+ years of experience with EEE parts reliability engineering in commercial, automotive, military, and/or aerospace industries
• Fundamental knowledge of failure modes and mechanisms in active and passive EEE parts
• Medium-scale data management and manipulation (SQL, JIRA, etc.)
• Strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience with physics of failure approach to reliability
• Experience with accelerated environmental screening and qualification techniques, and corresponding acceleration factors
• Experience in a wafer fabrication, EEE part production, design, assembly, packaging, and testing facilities
• Knowledge of manufacturing qualification and process controls and the differences between commercial, automotive, military, and space grade EEE parts
• Must be detail-oriented and have the ability to work proactively and effectively in a fast paced environment with minimal supervision
• Familiar with the following standards: AEC-Q100, AEC-Q200, AEC-Q101, MIL-PRF-38535, MIL-PRF-38534, MIL-STD-883, MIL-STD-1580, EEE-INST-002, PEM-INST-001, SMC-S-011, SMC-S-010, SMC-S-016, IPC, JEDEC, GEIA-STD-0005-2

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Various discounts and perks
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 10 or more paid holidays per year
• 5 days of sick leave per year
• Long-term incentives in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
• Potential discretionary bonuses
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan