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Varda Space Industries is building commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing systems, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses. As a Spacecraft Build Reliability Engineer, you will partner closely with design and manufacturing teams to ensure production processes yield verified, reliable hardware at scale.
Your 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 operational environments; 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 experience in hardware design, testing, manufacturing, and troubleshooting. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced aerospace environment where reliability and quality are paramount. Varda's team includes veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, major pharmaceutical companies, and Silicon Valley. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, and Founders Fund. Varda is headquartered in El Segundo with additional offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, AL.
