Electrical Reliability Engineer

Electrical Reliability Engineer

As a component reliability engineer with Astranis you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that our spacecraft meet our mission reliability and lifetime goals and ensure that we are able effectively leverage new technologies into our spacecraft electronics.  The component reliability engineer will work closely with our electrical, thermal, and mechanical teams to select EEE components, assess their reliability, design solutions to our reliability challenges, and to plan and execute additional qualification or screening processes as needed. You’ll support the team in pushing the boundary of what is possible in a geo-synchronous spacecraft design and enable performance in space that has not been realized to date.

Role

• Develop physics of failures based models to predict EEE component life and assess the impact of component failure on mission life
• Develop qualification and screening tests and derating guidelines for flight rated EEE components. 
• Advise designers on parts selection based on part qualification levels and reliability test data
• Drive failure analysis on EEE component failures to determine root causes and identify corrective actions
• Assist in maintaining the approved component library in Astranis’s ECAD and PLM databases

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 5+ years of experience as a component, reliability engineer, or electrical engineer.
• 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: semiconductor physics, physics of failure, accelerated testing, design for reliability

Bonus

• Knowledge of accelerated test profiles for component-level screening and qualification testing
• Understanding of HALT/HASS test profiles and reliability assessments
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes: production part approval process, advanced product quality planning, first article inspection reports, product lifecycle management systems, etc.
• Experience performing failure analysis and destructive physical analysis investigations to provide corrective actions and paths to closure
• Experience maintaining source control documentations for EEE components
• Experience gathering and interpreting PPAP documentation for EEE components