Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX 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 SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. LEAD ELECTRICAL HARDWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (STARSHIELD) Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. This is an opportunity to build and lead an electrical hardware reliability team for Starshield. In addition to hiring top-notch electrical engineers you will work on identifying, analyzing, and resolving hardware failures to improve the robustness and longevity of our PCBAs. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including electrical, mechanical, software, and supply chain, to enhance the overall reliability of Starshield hardware. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge R&D technology and some of the most complex applications of electrical engineering in the industry RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead and hire a team of electrical hardware reliability engineers supporting Starshield production Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members leading root cause investigations of electrical hardware Align goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to achieve program reliability and rate objectives Collaborate with team members to create personalized career growth plans that build their technical capabilities and accelerate progress toward their professional goals Drive corrective action to products not meeting design specifications through data driven decisions using yield and defect monitoring to identify common failure modes Proactively escalate major hardware concerns, secure appropriate res