Senior Build Reliability Engineer Verified today
The Role
As a Senior Build Reliability Engineer, you will ensure that every satellite K2 ships is built to fly. You will own quality and reliability from the moment raw materials arrive through vehicle handoff at the launch site. You will investigate failures, find root causes, and prevent recurrence. You will write quality plans and build processes that enable scaling from a few spacecraft to many, without compromising the reliability that missions demand.
You will work hands-on alongside engineers and technicians, shaping how hardware gets built. You will influence design decisions with production floor data. You will help establish manufacturing practices for Commercial, National Security, and Science missions across LEO, MEO, GEO, Cislunar, and Deep Space.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute quality plans across assigned build programs, from receiving inspection through integration, test, and vehicle handoff at the launch site
- Lead failure investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action efforts; drive containment activities that reduce risk and improve reliability across production
- Feed lessons learned from build non-conformances and test failures back into the design cycle, influencing component iterations towards simpler, more robust, and more repeatable flight unit builds
- Develop and continuously improve quality processes including non-conformance workflows, process controls, and PFMEAs for complex manufacturing and integration operations
- Collaborate with manufacturing and design engineering teams to embed quality into the product lifecycle, ensuring quality plans support lean manufacturing and rapid production without sacrificing reliability
- Support change control implementation by working with engineering teams to evaluate the quality and reliability impact of design and process changes
- Define, track, and report key quality metrics and production reliability trends; build dashboards that provide leadership visibility into build health
- Serve as the Build Reliability representative during design reviews, readiness reviews, and production milestone gates
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline
- 6 or more years of experience in a high-volume, rapid production environment in a manufacturing, integration, quality, and/or design engineering role
- Strong production and hardware manufacturing experience, including machined parts, mechanisms, electrical assemblies, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), and harnessing
- Experience developing and executing quality plans across the full build lifecycle
- Ability to work hands-on in a production environment alongside technicians and manufacturing teams
- Experience with failure analysis methodologies, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes
- Familiarity with quality standards and processes such as IPC, AS9100, or equivalent aerospace/defense quality systems