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EEE Component Reliability Engineer

SpaceX

Redmond, WA · 1+ years experience · Posted Sep 24, 2026

At a glance

Experience
1+ years experience
Location
Redmond, WA

About the role

  • 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 and evaluates the quality and reliability of components for the design community.
  • This engineer helps ensure robust qualification of custom silicon by planning, executing, and documenting appropriate reliability testing across design and production.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Preferred qualifications

  • 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

Benefits

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

Workplace

  • Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday

Skills

  • Embedded C Programming
  • Oscilloscopes
  • Waveform Generators
  • SMUs
  • JEDEC
  • AEC-Q100
  • HALT/HASS
  • HTOL
  • ESS
  • Weibull Analysis
  • FEA
  • Sherlock
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  • ANSYS

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