Reliability Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Houston, United States. Proof of U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Residency is required, along with completion of a U.S. government background investigation. Evening and weekend work may be required for critical project milestones.

Company

Human space exploration company developing orbital infrastructure, commercial human spaceflight services, and advanced spacesuits.

What you will do

• Plan and implement reliability engineering strategies, requirements, and program growth for spacecraft and orbital station systems.
• Conduct system, assembly, and component-level FMEA and criticality analyses.
• Develop reliability models and predictions, including MTBF and MTTF, using analysis and accelerated aging tests.
• Perform fault tree, reliability block, and functional block diagram analyses for mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical designs.
• Analyze flight hardware failure data and identify critical items requiring verification and reliability improvement strategies.
• Collaborate with design, safety, system, and subsystem engineers during design reviews, testing, documentation, and customer presentations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, electrical, mechanical, or related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of direct spacecraft reliability experience, including statistical process control, modeling, and prediction.
• Experience with spacecraft, space vehicle, and component reliability predictions and flight hardware failure data analysis.
• Broad knowledge of space systems engineering, space vehicle design, system architecture, ground systems, payloads, and mission operations.
• Detailed knowledge of spaceflight subsystems and functions; human spaceflight experience is preferred.
• U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent residency and eligibility for a U.S. government background investigation are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with SAPHIRE or PTC Windchill Quality Solutions.
• Experience with spacecraft probability strategic assessments.
• Experience supporting NASA human spaceflight programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work focused on human space exploration and orbital infrastructure.
• Collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering and subsystem teams.
• Work in an office environment with occasional indoor or outdoor activities depending on the task.
• Core values include leadership, innovation, teamwork, accountability, technical rigor, and execution discipline.