Lead Hardware Reliability Engineer (Starshield) is open at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. The posting gives a salary of $155K - $215K. Posted on Oct 22, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Lead and hire a team of hardware reliability engineers supporting Starshield production Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members leading root cause investigations of subassembly and process failures Align goals and priorities with production and partner engineering teams to achieve program reliability, yield, and rate objectives Collaborate with team members to create personalized career growth…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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