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Varda Space Industries is accelerating commercial space infrastructure development, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable reentry capsules. The Build Reliability Engineer II partners closely with design and manufacturing teams to scale production of spacecraft hardware while ensuring processes yield verified, reliable hardware at rate.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams to create test, manufacturability, and inspection plans for all vehicle hardware
- Contain suspect or known non-conforming product, providing guidance to quality inspectors, technicians, shop supervisors, and engineers
- Lead failure investigations in production, test, and operation; identify and mitigate immediate and underlying root causes to reduce risk and improve reliability of designs and processes
- Provide critical peer review of hardware during design reviews and acceptance and qualification test campaigns
- Support Quality, Flight Reliability, and Mission Assurance functions as needed
The ideal candidate is a responsible, collaborative, process-oriented engineer with hands-on hardware design, test, manufacturing, and troubleshooting experience. This role requires deep technical expertise in spacecraft production, reliability engineering, and quality assurance. Varda's team includes veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, major pharmaceutical companies, and Silicon Valley. The company is headquartered in El Segundo with additional offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, AL.
