Senior Design Engineer

Principal Design Reliability Engineer - Revolutionizing Aerospace & Defense Supply Chains

Major Equity Package!

Have you taken complex electrical or mechanical hardware from initial concept through design, qualification, and into production — and learned first-hand what separates good engineering processes from bad ones?

Do you want Principal-level technical influence without having to move into traditional people management?

This is a Principal Design Reliability Engineer role with one of the fastest-scaling start-ups in aerospace & defense (ex-SpaceX Founding!)

At Principal level, you’re joining early enough to have founding-engineer-level influence — working directly with senior leadership and shaping how the entire company designs, qualifies and manufactures hardware — without having to move away from engineering into traditional people management.

As a Principal Design Reliability Engineer, you will become one of the most influential technical contributors, helping define how hardware is designed across the entire organization.

This is not a conventional reliability position. We are looking for an experienced hardware development engineer who understands what it takes to move complex products rapidly from requirements through design, qualification and production — and can turn those lessons into better engineering practices to standardize across the company due to massive growth increasing process complexity.

As the Senior / Principal Design Reliability Engineer your responsibilities will include:

• Defining and owning the design processes and engineering standards
• Establishing standardized processes for capturing, reviewing, challenging and tracking customer and product requirements
• Leading and improving design reviews including design criteria reviews, PDRs and CDRs, ensuring risks and actions are identified and closed
• Developing mechanical or electrical hardware design guides based on engineering best practice, lessons learned and existing Amca product heritage
• Establishing design release and configuration management processes across CAD, drawings, PCBAs and associated engineering documentation
• Defining qualification standards and test strategies using frameworks including MIL-STD-810, DO-160 and other relevant aerospace and defense standards
• Reviewing designs across the organization, identifying technical risks early and helping engineers resolve problems without unnecessarily slowing development
• Supporting root-cause investigations and corrective actions when hardware fails during qualification or testing
• Remaining willing to get hands-on and support hardware design and development projects when required

This Principal Design Reliability Engineer position offers a rare opportunity to have Principal-level influence over not simply one product, but how an entire rapidly scaling aerospace and defense organization develops hardware as a whole.

For an experienced hardware engineer who has accumulated the battle scars of real product development and wants to turn those lessons into better engineering across an entire company — without having to become a traditional people manager — this is a genuinely unique opportunity for massive

All successful applicants will be contacted within two working days.