Staff Reliability Engineer

The Company Astra's mission is to improve life on Earth from space by creating a healthier and more connected planet. Astra delivered its first commercial payload into Earth orbit in 2021, making it the fastest company in history to reach this milestone, just five years after being founded in 2016. By achieving monthly, weekly, then daily launches, we'll create the infrastructure services our customers need in space to build a healthier and more connected planet. If you're excited by a sense of possibility, the chance to innovate, and make a difference here on Earth, we think you should work here too. The Team Astra aims to make Daily Space Delivery possible by being the first company to mass-produce orbital class launch vehicles. This necessitates a unique reliability approach that blends lessons from the automotive and aerospace industries. Reliability Engineering group within The Mission Assurance team executes on this vision by pursuing the physics of failure understanding in every piece of Astra’s hardware, software and operations through their entire lifecycle. In order to develop mass producible hardware for space applications, we are paving the way for a unique hardware/system development process that merges the automotive and aerospace ways. Our north star is the pursuit of understanding the right way for Astra to design, test, validate and manufacture simple, elegant and robust launch systems and spacecrafts. The Opportunity As a Reliability Engineer, you will partner with leaders across Astra’s engineering and test organizations to ensure we are designing a reliable rocket for our customers. You will be intimately involved in the design of our launch systems from the very beginning, and you will help define qualification and acceptance test plans for a diverse range of critical hardware, ensuring that our launch systems are ready for launch by the time it reaches the launch pad. As a reliability engineer, you will be relied upon to help us anticipate risks in the very earliest stages of the launch vehicle design process and utilize lessons learned to de-risk designs. You'll use your reliability skillset to analyze gaps in our existing processes and determine how we can best fill those gaps. You will be part of the initial team that defines how we “do” reliability engineering at Astra, evaluating important trades that weigh improved reliability, development timelines, and cost. You will bring a data-driven perspective to critical questions that will shape the future of the business. The right candidate will always seek out more efficient and applicable ways of doing the work aerospace industry has developed overtime. We are looking for pioneers in defining the new age of reliability engineering in aerospace.  ITAR Requirements: This position requires compliance with U.S. Government space technology  trade restrictions, specifically the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and additional regulations governing satellite, launch vehicle, missile, and other related technologies.  All jobs restricted by these regulations will be contingent upon the applicant’s status as a documented U.S. Person or their ability to receive a trade license from the cognizant government agency; in addition to any required company background checks and in compliance with applicable U.S. and California laws.  Similarly, positions requiring the ability to work on government contracts or a security clearance are also contingent upon the applicants ability to receive the appropriate clearance and be allowed to work on U.S. government contracts. You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Astra, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills. San Francisco Applicants: Astra will consider applicants with arrest and conviction records (criminal histories) in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.