Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Hardware Build Reliability Engineer II
About this role
Varda seeks a Hardware Build Reliability Engineer II to partner with design and manufacturing teams on spacecraft hardware production processes, ensuring scaled manufacturing yields verified and reliable components. You'll lead failure investigations, manage non-conforming product, and support quality and mission assurance across in-orbit pharmaceutical processing vehicles and reentry systems.
What you'll do
- Develop test, manufacturability, and inspection plans for spacecraft hardware in collaboration with design and manufacturing teams
- Contain and manage non-conforming products while guiding quality inspectors, technicians, and engineers
- Lead failure investigations in production and test environments to identify root causes and improve design and process reliability
- Provide critical peer review during design reviews and acceptance/qualification test campaigns
- Support quality, flight reliability, and mission assurance functions beyond core build reliability duties
- Scale production processes and controls to enable high-volume spacecraft hardware manufacturing
What they're looking for
- Hardware design and manufacturing process knowledge
- Failure analysis and root cause investigation
- Quality assurance and non-conformance management
- Test planning and execution
- Production troubleshooting and problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication
- Spacecraft or aerospace hardware experience
- Process optimization and scalability assessment
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Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries builds commercial spacecraft and orbital manufacturing systems for missions in low Earth orbit, including reentry capsules and satellite buses. The company is hiring mission operations engineers, software engineers (ground segment, flight, and embedded), and manufacturing engineers to develop mission-critical systems, operational infrastructure, and scalable production capabilities.
- Website
- varda.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience leading failure investigations in production environments and how you identified root causes to prevent recurrence.
- Walk us through a time you partnered with design and manufacturing teams to improve a process or design for manufacturability.