Top Reliability Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead quality and reliability for Terran R components by embedding reliability into design and production. Develop processes, controls, inspections, DFM practices, nonconformance and corrective action workflows, and coordinate in-process verification while partnering with engineering, additive, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to scale a robust quality system.

Drive supplier quality and material reliability across supply chain, engineering, and manufacturing. Lead containment and root-cause analysis for nonconformances, track yields and escapes, implement corrective actions, improve supplier capability, and incorporate lessons learned into NPI to meet program reliability goals.

The Senior Build Reliability Engineer partners with design and manufacturing teams to develop production, test, manufacturability, and inspection plans for spacecraft hardware. Responsibilities include nonconformance containment, production and test failure investigations, root-cause mitigation, design and test reviews, FMEA, requirements compliance, verification evidence, and vehicle-level risk management. The role supports quality, mission assurance, flight reliability, and scalable production of reliable flight hardware.

Partners with design and manufacturing teams to develop test, inspection, manufacturability, and process-control plans for spacecraft hardware. Leads production and test failure investigations, containment, root-cause mitigation, reliability analyses, design reviews, qualification campaigns, requirements compliance, hazard analyses, verification evidence, and vehicle-level risk management. Supports quality, flight reliability, and mission assurance while improving manufacturing scalability, hardware reliability, and production yield.

Lead architecture and implementation of Redfin's cloud database and storage systems with focus on reliability, scalability, observability, security, and disaster recovery. Own incident response, root cause analysis, upgrades, backups, migrations, and mentor engineers; participate in on-call rotation and collaborate with cross-functional senior leaders.

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 the reliability, performance, resilience, observability, and security of AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure supporting products and AI/ML workloads. Define SLOs, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, build Terraform automation, optimize cloud costs, reduce operational toil, and establish deployment standards that help engineers ship reliably. Participate in on-call rotations and maintain HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.

Own the health, uptime, performance, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery of Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. Automate administration using Python or Bash, optimize SQL queries, troubleshoot infrastructure and data issues, support developers, document systems and runbooks, and provide database architecture expertise. The role includes testing, cross-team collaboration, coaching other database staff, self-service solutions, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Own hardware reliability through accelerated life, component, and reliability demonstration testing. Develop test plans, determine sample sizes and durations, analyze life and field data, conduct Weibull and statistical analyses, and lead failure investigations. Build reliability models including FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, and reliability block diagrams. Partner with test, design, manufacturing, and quality teams to drive corrective actions, design-for-reliability practices, reliability metrics, and a scalable reliability test capability.

Own spacecraft and constellation hardware reliability strategies, requirements, models, allocations, and testing programs. Lead HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, reliability growth, statistical modeling, root-cause investigations, FRACAS, and corrective actions. Integrate test and flight telemetry data into reliability predictions, flow down requirements, advise leadership on risk trade-offs, and mentor reliability engineers. Partner with design, systems, test, and manufacturing teams to improve robustness and support high-volume satellite production.

Lead design, automation, and maintenance of cloud-based database infrastructure (primarily SQL Server and MySQL). Improve reliability with monitoring, HA/DR, automation, troubleshooting, on-call support, and mentoring of junior engineers while collaborating across teams.

Develops and improves reliability and quality of Falcon and Dragon flight hardware throughout design, manufacturing, testing, and operation. Responsibilities include creating quality plans, validating inspection and test processes, analyzing production and flight failures, driving root-cause corrective actions, containing nonconforming products, conducting build reviews, and advancing Lean production systems. The role requires close collaboration with design, manufacturing, quality, inspection, and shop-floor teams in hands-on factory and laboratory environments.

Perform reliability and mission assurance analyses for spacecraft and supporting systems, including FMEA/FMECA, FTA, reliability predictions, physics-of-failure evaluations, parts reliability, and risk assessments. Influence spacecraft architecture, hardware design, supplier selection, redundancy, and component choices. Support environmental qualification, life testing, failure investigations, and verification activities while maintaining technical documentation. Develop reliability processes within an AS9100 Rev D quality system and collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires experience with flight hardware or similarly high-reliability aerospace systems and U.S. person status.

Owns reliability analysis for mission-critical electrical systems in data centers. Develops electrical BIA and FMEA packages, defines monitoring and maintenance strategies, validates one-line diagrams and redundancy assumptions, and recommends testing, spare-parts, redesign, and risk-reduction actions. Supports root-cause analyses, commissioning, vendor reviews, workshops, and design changes while communicating technical risks and tracking reliability improvements. Requires travel of 25% to 40% and occasional maintenance-window support.

Investigate and resolve hardware failures for Starshield satellite production, drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions, improve manufacturing/test processes, apply SPC/DOE and PFMEA, support shop-floor continuous improvement and documentation to maximize yield and prevent escapes.

Investigate, analyze, and track on-orbit hardware reliability for Starshield satellites. Drive root-cause failure investigations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, build monitoring and analysis tools, and apply data-driven improvements across design, production, and operations to improve constellation reliability.

Lead reliability engineering for spacecraft during concept and formulation: establish reliability frameworks, perform FMEA/FTA/RBD/PHA, create reliability requirements and budgets, maintain reliability predictions (MIL‑HDBK‑217/NPRD), support test/verification strategies, drive mitigation of critical failures, and collaborate with systems and subsystem leads to ensure mission success.

Lead product and process reliability initiatives in a high-precision manufacturing environment. Analyze quality data, reduce defects, optimize inspection strategies, implement process controls, and manage nonconformances and corrective actions. Own customer quality deliverables including PPAP and FAIR, support audits and process validation, develop quality dashboards, and collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, customers, and suppliers. Mentor quality team members and support new product introductions.

Lead development and execution of reliability strategies, models, and testing (HALT/HASS/ALT/TVAC) to meet vehicle and constellation-level availability targets. Integrate reliability analyses with design, manufacturing, and risk management; drive root-cause investigations and corrective actions; mentor junior engineers and scale reliability practices for high-volume satellite production.

Work as an SRE embedded with product teams to improve reliability by fixing application code (primarily TypeScript), building observability (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Alloy), defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response and postmortems, automating toil, and supporting deployments across on‑prem DoD and AWS environments.

Own quality and reliability across satellite build programs from receiving inspection through integration, test, and launch handoff. Lead failure investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and containment. Develop quality processes, PFMEAs, and metrics; embed quality into manufacturing and design. Support change control, build dashboards, and represent build reliability at design and readiness reviews to enable high-rate, mission-ready satellite production.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Support avionics EEE parts reliability across design and production: plan and execute reliability tests, analyze failures, build prediction and FEA models, advise on parts selection and PCB/assembly design, coordinate failure analyses and corrective actions, and drive reliability risk closure.

Own the reliability, performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency of production Aurora MySQL databases on AWS. Responsibilities include observability, alerting, query optimization, replication, backups, disaster recovery, schema migrations, reader topology, cost optimization, runbooks, incident response, and database performance reviews. The role partners with engineering teams, supports HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI, and establishes reliable database operating practices.

Lead reliability and design reviews for human-rated artificial-gravity space station systems. Oversee qualification and test completeness, drive engineering standards and processes, capture lessons learned, and partner cross-functionally to ensure design maturity, configuration control, and safe, resilient hardware development.