Senior Reliability Test Engineer

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As a Senior Reliability Test Engineer, you work at the intersection of every engineering discipline to ensure hardware meets the highest bar for quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute qualification and validation test plans: environmental, accelerated life, shock, vibration, thermal cycling, HALT, and HASS.
• Design, build, and automate test equipment, fixturing, and instrumentation end-to-end in Python, maximizing throughput against rapid design cycles.
• Establish reliability targets across PCBAs, power electronics, avionics, actuators, batteries, high-speed digital and RF systems, and develop unit-level mission profiles.
• Review block diagrams, interface control documents, and schematics, and guide teams on design for reliability.
• Lead DFMEA and Fault Tree Analysis with cross-functional teams, and convert output into design verification plans and implemented design changes.
• Build and maintain reliability models as living artifacts, creating physics-of-failure predictions, mission risk quantification, and Weibull analysis.
• Serve as the escalation point for reliability risks, leading containment and root-cause investigation of high-impact failures.
• Coordinate failure analysis and destructive physics analysis using various tools and techniques.
• Perform analyses on field telemetry, identify performance and degradation trends, and influence upstream teams to prioritize work that prevents reliability failures.
• Define entry and exit criteria for program gates and mentor engineers to raise reliability capability across the company.

Requirements:

• B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Physics, Materials Science, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• 5+ years in reliability, test, or design engineering on high-reliability hardware or 3+ years with an M.S.
• Hands-on testing experience with mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems.
• Experience standing up reliability engineering frameworks for a product or program.
• Experience generating qualification test requirements and executing tests.
• Domain depth in one or more areas: EEE piece parts, avionics, PCBA reliability, battery systems, EV powertrain or HV devices, thermal systems, actuators, or solar cells.
• Experience owning reliability infrastructure: test labs and chambers, failure analysis equipment, metrology and instrumentation.
• Proven track record of driving systemic improvements and shaping engineering strategy.
• Expertise in reliability analysis: FMEA/FMECA, FTA, predictive modeling, and Weibull analysis.
• Failure investigation experience with a proven record of solving problems and preventing recurrence.
• Design review experience and confidence presenting to every level of leadership.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Working proficiency in Python, C++, or another coding language.

Benefits:

• Compensation package including equity and robust benefits.
• Base pay: $145,000-$235,000 USD.
• High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.