Design Reliability Engineer (Falcon & Dragon) is open at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. The posting gives a salary of $100K - $130K. Posted on Aug 5, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Ensure that the SpaceX design process and design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and recovery systems Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems Setup new processes to enable reliable aircraft-like operations of…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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