Mission Assurance · Mission Assurance
Reliability & Mission Assurance Engineer
Drive reliability analysis, failure reviews, quality controls and verification evidence needed for dependable missions.
Role mandate
Build the capability for the era ahead.
This team member will combine subject-matter depth, sound judgment and disciplined execution to move the mission from architecture to measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Own the Mission Assurance workstream for Reliability & Mission Assurance Engineer and deliver measurable technical or operating outcomes.
- Create repeatable plans, evidence and controls that demonstrate product and mission readiness.
- Lead failure analysis, risk retirement, quality review and corrective action.
- Coordinate suppliers, engineering teams and operations through integration and acceptance.
Required qualifications
- Experience in aerospace manufacturing, integration, environmental test, quality, reliability or safety.
- Working knowledge of verification planning, nonconformance control and root-cause analysis.
- Strong attention to traceability, documentation and measurable acceptance criteria.
Preferred experience
- Experience with flight hardware, launch environments or radiation assurance.
- Knowledge of recognized aerospace quality and mission-assurance practices.
Scientific and technical requirements
Physics, mathematics and engineering foundations
- Verification engineering, reliability statistics, vibration/acoustics, thermal-vacuum physics, EMC, radiation effects, quality and configuration control.
- Probability distributions, confidence intervals, Weibull/exponential life models, uncertainty and root-cause analysis.
Mathematics and working equations
- For constant hazard λ, R(t) = e^(−λt) and MTBF = 1/λ; justify independence and mission-profile assumptions.
- Random vibration uses acceleration power spectral density and integrated Grms; structural response is evaluated through transfer functions and modal models.
- Thermal-vacuum balance uses conductive and radiative heat equations; radiation assurance closes TID, displacement damage and SEE rates with margin.
- Failure-mode risk priority and fault-tree probability must preserve traceability to evidence and common-cause dependencies.
Hardware, flight and infrastructure components
- Flight and ground-support equipment, harnesses, connectors, mechanical fixtures, cleanroom controls, simulators, EGSE and calibrated instrumentation.
- Thermal-vacuum chamber, shaker, acoustic facility, shock equipment, EMC chamber, radiation sources/beam facilities and non-destructive inspection tools.
Software, laboratory and analysis tools
- Requirements/test management, configuration and nonconformance systems, statistical analysis, FRACAS, FMEA/FMECA and fault-tree software.
- Automated test equipment, data acquisition, metrology, contamination monitoring and manufacturing execution/traceability systems.
Verification and mission skills
- Control procedures, configuration, calibration, workmanship, test limits, redlines, anomalies, retest logic and objective acceptance evidence.
- Demonstrate interface compatibility and mission readiness from component qualification through system acceptance and launch-site operations.
Authoritative technical references
The hiring sequence will follow operating milestones and project requirements. The position may begin through advisory, consulting or project-based work before moving into a full-time role.
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