RESPONSIBILITIES:

📍Provide support for team leadership and technical guidance within the EEE Parts Reliability group 📍Drive Avionics EEE piece part reliability issues and risks towards closure 📍External customer coordination on reliability risk assessments and EEE part approvals 📍Use reliability physics of failure models and reliability statistics to assess risk levels to the mission for components and solder joints 📍Advise EEE customers on parts selection based on part reliability and manufacturing processes 📍Independently apply technical concepts to resolve complex issues, and make decisions in creative and effective ways 📍Interface with SpaceX departments such as supply chain, design engineers, and production/manufacturing 📍Support failure analysis and destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure 📍Develop accelerated test profiles for component-level screening and qualification testing 📍Perform accelerated testing of components and solder joints and develop derating specifications for components 📍Process issues within SpaceX’s non-conformance system for items requiring failure analysis investigations and DPA 📍Coordinate, drive, and perform EEE parts root cause failure analysis and DPA from initial assessment to a Corrective Actions report in EEE’s internal Failure Analysis / Destructive Physical Analysis Lab 📍Evaluate electrical, thermal, and mechanical characteristics of integrated circuits, components, sub-components, and PCBAs to determine root cause of failure 📍Generate failure reports and recommend corrective actions to prevent recurrence of problems 📍Leverage failure analysis and DPA results to interact with design, process, and production teams to implement corrective actions, containment efforts, and risk assessments 📍Serve as technical failure analysis and DPA liaison within the SpaceX certification program 📍Identify optimum analytical approaches to critical problems Develop methods to track metrics on all known failure analyses and DPA’s to resolve systematic issues and their root cause 📍Conduct innovative use of new analytical tools, equipment and methodologies 📍Maintain and oversee failure analysis lab equipment calibration, consumables, and safety practices 📍Operate autonomously and safely all EEE Failure Analysis / Destructive Failure Analysis Lab equipment, tools, and machinery (i.e. Laser Decap, X-Ray, CSAM, SEM/EDS, Keyence, Soldering Station, Optical Microscopy, Nisene Etch, Ultrasonic, Cross-Section, Thermal Chambers, Thermal Humidity Chambers, HALT/HASS, Curve Trace, Source Meter, Multimeter, Power Supply, etc.)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

📍Bachelor’s degree in reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, physics, electrical engineering, or applied engineering 📍1+ years of experience with EEE part reliability, failure analysis, DPA, and qualification; or EEE part design and construction, wafer fabrication, electronic packaging, electronic materials; or materials characterization, material stress testing, or material stress analysis