Join SpaceX as a Design Reliability Engineer to ensure successful missions for the Crew Starship program.
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Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Develop design criteria and requirements
- Ensure compliance with design processes
- Perform verification reviews
- Lead spacecraft certification efforts
- Review vehicle changes for compliance
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 1+ years professional experience in fabrication, assembly, and/or testing
Nice to have
- Master's degree in an engineering discipline
- Experience with aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft
- Experience with standards and requirement negotiation
- Excellent customer interface skills
- Experience with commercial FEA packages
- Hands on experience with manufacturing tools
Practical constraints
- Must be available to work long hours and weekends as necessary
- U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident required
Requirements
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation.
Joblaze summary
The Design Reliability Engineer for Crew Starship at SpaceX focuses on developing design criteria and ensuring compliance with internal and external requirements for flight hardware. This role requires expertise in aerospace systems, including experience with design reviews and verification processes, as well as proficiency in tools like FEA software and scripting languages. Ideal candidates possess a background in engineering, with at least one year of relevant experience, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 30, 2026. Last confirmed on SpaceX's careers page September 30, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at SpaceX: Hawthorne, CA, United States.
- Python appears in 17.1% of 2985 comparable mid other roles in United States; Visual Basic appears in 0.1% of 2985 comparable mid other roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship) role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in Starbase, TX, United States.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 1 year of relevant experience for this Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship) role.
- Where is the role based?
- SpaceX is hiring for this position in Starbase, TX, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Excel, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic.
- Does SpaceX sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- SpaceX targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship) role at SpaceX.
From the original posting
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.
DESIGN RELIABILITY ENGINEER (CREW STARSHIP)
After 50 years, humankind will once again return to surface of the moon using SpaceX’s new vehicle, the Human Landing System (HLS) – this time for good. Leveraging the lessons learned from our flight proven Dragon spacecraft, Falcon and now Starship, HLS will usher in the next era of manned spaceflight and exploration, ultimately allowing us to establish permanent communities on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
The HLS Design Reliability team is responsible for ensuring that flight hardware and concepts-of-operations lead to successful completion of missions while meeting or exceeding both internal and external design requirements. We perform a unique engineering role, evaluating and guiding engineering designs from concept to flight. We facilitate cross-disciplinary action and problem-solving across all SpaceX programs and staff.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems.
- Ensure that the SpaceX design process & design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and/or recovery systems, including:
- Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
- Drive improvements to vehicle design through close integration with hardware teams.
- Perform verification reviews hardware and systems.
- Ensure that the customer design criteria/requirements are addressed for flight systems, including:
- Lead spacecraft certification efforts through direct interaction with U.S. Government customers.
- Tailor and negotiating requirements and verifications to meet program goals.
- Review vehicle changes to ensure qualification compliance.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
- 1+ years professional experience in fabrication, assembly, and/or testing.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
- Experience with aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, or other aerospace systems.
- Experience with aircraft, launch vehicle, or spacecraft requirements and standards.
- Experience with standards and requirement negotiation.
- Excellent customer interface skills.
- Experience with at least one commercial FEA package (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS).
- Hands on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup, etc.
- Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python and Excel.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be available to work long hours and weekends as necessary.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
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