Senior Build Reliability Engineer (Propulsion)
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Job Location:
Redondo Beach, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 140000 - 170000
Posted on:
20 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Senior Build Reliability Engineer (Propulsion) at Impulse you will own the connection between design requirements manufacturing execution and flight performance for the propulsion hardware. You will work hands-on with technicians manufacturing engineers and supporting teams to prevent defects before they occur rapidly diagnose failures and continuously improve hardware reliability across spacecraft builds.
Responsibilities
- Identify investigate and eliminate build defects and failures through root cause analysis and corrective actions both within and outside of your work centers
- Develop inspection requirements acceptance criteria and quality control processes aligned with hardware and mission reliability requirements. Assist in closeout inspections
- Perform development testing to guide design decisions and characterize hardware performance
- Provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning
- Optimize MRP/ERP system modules for improved hardware trace data collection and overall reliability
- Balance inspection and test with lean principles to ensure verifications are both comprehensive and streamlined
- Develop and implement build quality metrics to heighten awareness and to improve quality landscape over time
- Act as a specification custodian for inspection plans storage and handling procedures process control plans and more
- Own training and certification of elevated sign-off privileges for manufacturing technicians
- Interface with supply chain to improve vendor hardware quality
- Ensure hardware integrity by holding the line on quality standards extreme-owning hardware containments and driving corrective actions to completion
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering or related field
- 5 years of experience in hardware manufacturing aerospace automotive or high-reliability systems
- Demonstrated experience supporting production builds integration or test of primary structures and/or complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
- Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated root cause analysis experience
- Strong theoretical and working knowledge of GD&T
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 7 years of demonstrated build reliability experience with spacecraft launch vehicles aviation robotics or defense hardware
- Familiarity with AS9100 ISO 9001 or similar quality systems (practical application preferred over documentation focus)
- Demonstrated experience with reliability engineering concepts (FMEA reliability growth Weibull analysis)
- Demonstrated background working closely with technicians and production teams
- Demonstrated experience supporting rapid development or prototype-to-production transitions
- Technical familiarity with propulsion assembly such as valves cryogenics high-pressure systems injectors feedlines and fluid systems
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role level location and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills education experience technical capabilities and internal addition to base salary for full-time hires you may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and access to medical vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Spaces spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e. U.S. citizen U.S. national lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder) an individual granted asylum in the U.S. or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State Commerce or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
