Design Reliability Engineering Manager

Description

What you'll do:

• Lead reliability engineering end-to-end: define and own the reliability program across avionics, mechanisms, power, thermal, and structures for current and future rover programs
• Build and manage a team of reliability and design assurance engineers, setting hiring priorities, technical standards, and growth paths as the company scales
• Architect Astrolab's design standards and test methodologies 
• Champion the Astrolab design process and set design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new hardware 
• Own change and risk reviews, translating technical risk and impact into decisions the team can act on 
• Become the person the organization trusts to translate technical risk into clear, confident decisions 
• Build the processes that ensure designs meet standards, reviews are comprehensive, changes are implemented, and risks are mitigated 
• Flow reliability requirements down to hardware: margins, screening levels, derating guidelines 
• Develop specialized analysis tools, review templates, reliability checklists, and design guides 
• Mentor engineers on reliability methods and analysis techniques 
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvements to strengthen standards and processes 

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) related field
• 5+ years in reliability, design assurance, or systems engineering for spaceflight, aerospace, or other high-consequence hardware (defense, nuclear, medical devices considered)
• 2+ years in a people-management or team-lead role

• Experience with FMEA/FMECA, fault tree analysis, reliability prediction (MIL-HDBK-217 or physics-of-failure methods), and worst-case analysis. 
• Experience with the environments that break lunar hardware: extreme thermal cycling, vacuum outgassing, radiation (SEU/SEL/TID), regolith/dust contamination, and launch/landing shock and vibration loads. 
• Experience designing, integrating, testing, or operating space vehicles or other large, complex systems 
• Experience standing up a reliability function at a growth-stage company. 
• Experience creating engineering standards, review templates, or technical guidance frameworks  
• Experience with manufacturing processes, materials selection, and hardware qualification pathways  
• Experience with fracture control, human-rated hardware standards, or similar reliability frameworks 

Benefits and Perks

• Join a team of best-in-class engineers building the foundation of planetary surface exploration
• Equity ownership in the company
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible PTO and parental leave
• Weekly lunch stipend, plus complimentary snacks and beverages on-site
• Once a month social hour on-site with food and drinks