Lunar Terrain Vehicle Reliability Engineer
Lunar Terrain Vehicle Reliability Engineer
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$ 55250 - 99875
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Job Description
Humans left the moon for the last time on December 14 1972 over 51 years ago! With renewed interest in exploration and commercial lunar development NASA is investing with industry partners to design build and fly the next generation of crewed/remote-piloted/autonomous lunar surface vehicles. Leidos is actively involved with NASA delivering flight hardware for the Lunar Dawn team. Leidos is seeking a talented Mathematics Physics or Engineering graduate to support the LTV program.
As a core member of the team you will play a valuable part in supporting and executing the LTV program for NASA. You will be required to support multiple tasks in parallel productively contribute to and lead team environments and communicate effectively to management coworkers and customers. You must also be self-motivated and highly organized with a focus on managing customer expectations with a constant goal of generating high quality products that exceed stakeholder expectations. This is a dynamic opportunity supporting the Safety and Mission Assurance team in which talented engineers can thrive working alongside senior engineers on a diverse array of multidisciplinary projects in the space systems arena.
Leidos is seeking a Reliability Engineer to join our team in Huntsville AL. The qualified applicant will focus on reliability maintainability & availability engineering and analysis for the LTV program.
Position Description:
With some direction perform tasks necessary to ensure design test and assessment of reliability for end items systems or subsystems using various analysis tools and techniques. Understands the basic elements of reliability engineering to include reliability allocation prediction using either Mil-Hdbk-217 or similar commercial methods or physics of failure methods and maintenance data analysis.
Typical analyses performed include but are not limited to: Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Critical Items List Maintainability Analysis Fault Tree Analyses probabilistic analysis development of recommended design margins or factors of safety and reliability assessments.
- Review product systems associated support equipment and facilities functional specifications and operations and establish reliability maintainability and availability requirements for assigned systems
- Assess alternative design concepts and recommend those with best potential to meet RMA requirements or goals
- Develop reliability maintainability and availability models as required to support customer and test
- Perform derating analysis and reliability predictions for electronic components
- Recommend and conduct test-fix-test programs and assess and report results
- Perform maintainability analysis reviews and monitor and assess maintainability during test program
- Assess testability to include consideration of built in test test equipment test development and prognostics
- Recommend and assess highly accelerated stress screening environmental stress screening regimes for electronics
- Recommend non-destructive tests to detect early damage
- Perform reliability growth planning management and assessment
- Recommend prognostic coverage where feasible and quantify coverage accuracy and usefulness
- Perform service life analysis for mechanical parts or assemblies
- Develop qualification tests accelerated life tests highly accelerated life tests for new items or assemblies
- Recommend levels of spares to be procured to support tests or early fielding of end items
- Participate in failure analysis to identify root causes and assess corrective actions recommended for the program
- Ancillary duties may include tasks associated with statistical confidence and hypothesis testing
Qualifications - To be considered for this position you must minimally meet the knowledge skills and abilities listed below:
- Position requires candidates to be capable of performing in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams
- Applicant must have or be pursuing a Bachelors degree in Mathematics Physics or Engineering from an ABET accredited college or university with completion prior to the start date
- Applicant must be a US Citizen.
- Applicant must have an overall GPA of 3.0 or above
- Good verbal and written skills
- Familiar with Microsoft Office
- Applicants must be willing to work in-office in Huntsville AL
- Ability to track multiple tasks and prioritize work independently
- Self-motivation and quick learner to adapt to the broad array of subjects and issues encountered
Preferred:
- Knowledge of Reliability fundamentals
- Familiarity with Software Reliability Analysis
Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.
Were the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We dont wear capes (theyre a safety hazard) but we do solve high-stakes problems with code caffeine and a healthy disregard for how its always been done.
Original Posting:
October 1 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $55250.00 - $99875.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Employment Type
Full-Time
