Top Reliability Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Leads supplier reliability and quality activities for aerospace and human-rated space station components. Responsibilities include supplier onboarding, audits, manufacturing-process reviews, quality and delivery analysis, design-for-manufacturability assessments, corrective actions, root-cause investigations, supplier improvement plans, and technical requirement definition. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and suppliers to resolve nonconformances, improve reliability, and reduce cost. Requires substantial production-environment engineering experience and up to 50% travel.

Leads company-wide precision cleaning, contamination control, passivation, and special-process reliability for rocket hardware. Establishes process standards, qualification and validation frameworks, cleanliness criteria, inspection methods, technician certification, and governance. Scales clean-line capabilities from development through production, resolves complex contamination issues, leads root-cause investigations and corrective actions, and influences cross-functional engineering and manufacturing decisions while mentoring technical teams.

Owns build reliability for flight avionics hardware across design, manufacturing, integration, and testing. The role establishes readiness criteria, improves production processes, analyzes build data, leads quality reviews and root-cause investigations, drives corrective actions, and reduces cost of quality. It requires cross-functional leadership across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and mission assurance in a high-reliability aerospace environment.

Own build reliability for flight avionics and fluid-system hardware across design, manufacturing, integration, and test. The role defines readiness criteria, improves production processes, analyzes build data, leads containment and root-cause investigations, implements corrective actions, reduces quality costs, and coordinates cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and mission assurance.

Owns reliability and quality engineering activities for Terran R rocket design and production. Responsibilities include build verification, work instruction and process development, nonconformance management, configuration control, root-cause and corrective actions, inspection initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, test, and launch teams. The role is onsite for a weekend shift and requires aerospace manufacturing quality experience, familiarity with PLM, MES, ERP, QMS software, and GD&T.

Lead operational reliability and platform enablement for Databricks: build monitoring, CI/CD, deployment standards, compute and job policies, observability, runbooks, and governance to support secure, cost-aware, production data workloads across regulated environments. Mentor engineers and align platform with cloud/infrastructure and compliance requirements.

Own reliability and quality initiatives across rocket design, manufacturing, testing, and launch operations. Responsibilities include design standardization, DFM, configuration control, work instruction review, process development, build verification, nonconformance management, as-built verification, root cause and corrective action, inspection automation, and quality documentation. The role collaborates extensively with engineering, additive manufacturing, production, test, and launch teams while establishing scalable quality processes for the Terran R program.

Lead design and reliability reviews for human-rated space station systems. Oversee qualification and test completeness, assess design and operational changes, develop engineering standards and review frameworks, track design maturity and compliance, build risk-analysis tools, and collaborate across configuration management, software, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to improve system reliability.

Ensures enrichment technology designs meet design criteria and remain consistent from concept through operation. Leads design and change reviews, maintains configuration and technical documentation, manages engineering risks, coordinates cross-disciplinary interfaces, drives action closure, and automates review and risk workflows. The role requires strong technical documentation, decision-making, accountability, and systems-level understanding across engineering teams.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Partners with design and manufacturing teams to improve spacecraft production processes, test coverage, manufacturability, inspection, and reliability. Leads containment activities, failure investigations, root-cause analysis, risk mitigation, FMEAs, compliance documentation, and qualification reviews. Supports Quality, Flight Reliability, and Mission Assurance while managing vehicle-level requirements and verification evidence. The role requires hands-on hardware testing, troubleshooting, manufacturing process controls, and experience with aerospace or related engineering environments.

Own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Zapier’s database and caching infrastructure. Responsibilities include operating MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElastiCache; managing infrastructure with Terraform; building observability, automation, SLOs, and golden paths; participating in on-call; supporting product teams; improving performance and resilience; leading design reviews; documenting practices; and mentoring engineers.

Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure, automate manual operations, develop Terraform modules and Helm charts, manage Kubernetes and service mesh configurations, monitor GCP databases and services, improve observability, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and use AI coding agents to enhance infrastructure development. Collaborate with engineering teams on instrumentation, architecture, capacity planning, scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience.

Drive spacecraft product reliability by partnering with design and manufacturing to create quality plans, implement Lean test/inspection processes, investigate and contain production and flight failures, perform root cause analysis, and lead continuous improvement to improve manufacturability and reduce recurring non-conformances.

Leads reliability engineering for Haven-1 avionics, RF, and power systems. Responsibilities include FMEA and fault-tree analysis, design and test reviews, verification and validation, reliability risk reduction, engineering standards, configuration management, change control, and hardware integration. The role guides design decisions, qualification and acceptance testing, manufacturing readiness, and human-rated space station reliability throughout the development lifecycle.

Guide the design, verification, validation, and reliability of thermal fluids, environmental control, and life support systems for Haven-1. Lead FMEA, fault-tree analysis, design reviews, risk mitigation, test planning, configuration management, and engineering standards. Partner with hardware, manufacturing, software, and risk teams to ensure human-rated systems meet design intent, reliability goals, and qualification requirements throughout development and integration.

Lead reliability and quality engineering for rocket structures across design, manufacturing, testing, and launch. Responsibilities include drawing standardization, DFM, configuration control, work-instruction review, process development, build verification, nonconformance management, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, as-built verification, inspection initiatives, and cross-functional quality improvements. The role partners closely with engineering, additive manufacturing, production, test, and launch teams to establish scalable reliability processes for the Terran R launch vehicle.

Leads fleet-wide reliability improvement for additive manufacturing equipment. Owns issue intake, triage, prioritization, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, validation, and closure of complex machine failures. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, interprets machine and production data, develops reliability requirements and standards, communicates technical risks, and improves reliability processes across the product lifecycle.

Leads resolution of systemic reliability issues across an additive manufacturing machine fleet. Owns issue intake, triage, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, validation, and closure. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, interprets machine and production data, develops reliability requirements and validation strategies, communicates risks, and improves reliability processes, metrics, standards, and technical-debt reduction mechanisms.

Leads resolution of complex reliability issues across an additive manufacturing machine fleet. Owns issue intake, triage, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, validation, and closure. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, uses machine and production data to identify systemic failures, informs future product requirements, and communicates risks and recommendations to technical and business leaders. The role also develops reliability processes, standards, metrics, and technical-debt reduction mechanisms.

Leads reliability issue intake, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and validated closure across an additive manufacturing machine fleet. Partners with multidisciplinary engineering, production, service, and supplier teams to resolve systemic failures, improve reliability metrics and processes, establish engineering standards, and inform future machine designs. Requires strong technical leadership, data-driven problem solving, and experience with automated electromechanical equipment.

Lead build reliability for machined spacecraft hardware by preventing and diagnosing defects, developing inspection criteria, guiding design-for-reliability, performing development testing, optimizing ERP/MRP traceability, training technicians, and driving corrective actions to ensure hardware and mission reliability.

Lead hardware reliability for avionics components and production assemblies from design through flight. Partner with design, manufacturing, and test teams to track yields, investigate failures, perform electrical root-cause analysis, validate test systems, improve inspection and rework processes, and reduce production and flight risks. The role requires hands-on work across offices, factories, and labs, supporting Lean continuous improvement and product quality objectives.

Supports reliability of avionics hardware from design through production and flight. Investigates failures, conducts electrical root-cause analysis, tracks yields and escapes, validates test and inspection processes, performs measurement studies, and drives Lean manufacturing improvements. The role collaborates with design, manufacturing, test, quality, and shop-floor teams to reduce risk, improve manufacturability, address nonconformances, and ensure production assemblies meet reliability and quality objectives.

The Reliability Engineer develops reliability, availability, and maintainability strategies for defense systems and equipment. Responsibilities include supportability analysis, risk assessment, asset criticality ranking, failure and performance analysis, reliability metrics monitoring, root cause analysis, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, mitigation planning, maintenance optimization, and participation in design reviews. The role supports U.S. Department of Defense customers and requires collaboration with maintenance, operations, and engineering teams.