Senior Build Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own quality and reliability from raw materials to vehicle handoff. You will lead failure investigations, write quality plans, and build processes to scale satellite manufacturing.

What you will do

• Own and execute quality plans across assigned build programs
• Lead failure investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action efforts
• Feed lessons learned from build non-conformances and test failures back into the design cycle
• Develop and continuously improve quality processes including non-conformance workflows and PFMEAs
• Collaborate with manufacturing and design engineering teams to embed quality into the product lifecycle
• Support change control implementation
• Define, track, and report key quality metrics and production reliability trends
• Serve as the Build Reliability representative during design reviews, readiness reviews, and production milestone gates

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline
• 6+ years of experience in a high volume, rapid production environment in a manufacturing, integration, quality and/or design engineering role
• Strong production and hardware manufacturing experience, including manufacturing of a combination of machined parts, mechanisms, electrical assemblies, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), and ha
• Experience developing and executing quality plans across the full build lifecycle
• Ability to work hands-on in a production environment alongside technicians and manufacturing engineers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience developing PFMEAs for complex processes and leveraging them for continuous improvement initiatives
• Experience with quality inspection techniques such as NDE/NDT methods and associated equipment
• Familiarity with AS9100D requirements, including supporting audits and maintaining compliance within a production organization
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing of complex assemblies, including solar module lines, battery manufacturing lines, and cleanroom production environments
• Experience generating and evaluating key quality metrics across all stages of manufacturing
• Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Active Top Secret Clearance or an active DoD Secret clearance with SAP clearance eligibility

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown for missions from LEO to deep space. The company is mass-producing satellite platforms and is a high-growth Series D-funded company.