Sr. Reliability Engineer; Starlink

the company was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today the company is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

The Sr. Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the design engineer community towards higher reliability EEE components and systems. This person ensures the company can continue to use commercial electronics from a wide range of manufacturers. The Sr. Reliability Engineer is a key member that is involved with evaluating the quality and reliability of components for the design community.

This engineer will also address unforeseen component issues/failures and bring appropriate groups together to drive work towards closure. This work impacts all stages of design and production and must interface with supply chain, design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and production.

• Provide support for team leadership and technical guidance within and without the Hardware and EEE Parts Reliability group
• Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risk towards closure
• Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission as well as to develop and implement accelerated tests to mitigate risks and qualify designs
• Lead reliability test planning, methodology and execution
• 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
• Advise EEE designers on parts selection based on part reliability and manufacturing processes
• Interface with the company departments such as supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing
• Evaluate failure analysis and coordinate destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
• Analyze and model implementation options to inform electronics design for reliability, including Material selections; PCB laminates, features (vias, pad, stack up, etc.) specifications, finishes, Component attach;
  Solder chemistry, reflow profile Underfill selections
• Advise on HALT/HASS testing and reliability assessments for PCBA testing
• Execute testing campaigns to assess reliability of hardware and components