Reliability Engineer II

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, is leading the way in the New Space revolution!  Our state-of-the-art systems are currently on missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon, near earth asteroids, and to Mars.  We create high-reliability spacecraft with significantly greater performance, much smaller size and at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems.  We are involved in a wide range of projects for academic, commercial, and government applications.  Join our innovative and dynamic company, as we build the small spacecraft of the future.

Position Purpose: The Reliability Engineer II reports to the Principal Product Line Mission Assurance Manager and works in concert with program management team members.

Title: Reliability Engineer II

Position Type: Full Time

Pay Range: $80,000 - $135,000

(Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

Location: Lafayette, CO

Benefits:

• 100% company paid health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents effective the first of the month following hire date
• Life insurance
• 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
• Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Performs reliability analyses as needed to support program deliverables and analysis such as; parts stress analysis (PSA), failure mode and effects (FMEA), worse case circuit analysis (WCCA), mean time between failure (MTBF), probability of success (Ps).
• Participate in analysis effort to generate MTBF and Parts Stress Analyzes leveraging industry documents such as EEE-INST-001.
• Work in coordination with the EEE parts Engineer and Radiation Effects Engineer to understand overall probability of success based on mission environments.
• Communicate hardware reliability risks to the Mission Assurance Manager and Program Manager.
• Develop and maintain risk reduction test methods of flight hardware.
• Participate in Material Review Board and Failure Review Board activities as required.

• Works under general direction of project engineers or section head, or under general administrative instruction in performing detailed reliability studies and calculations of component/system reliabilities.
• Considers impact of costs on recommended action plans for avoiding/correcting problems during the design phase or remedial action for correcting reliability problems on installed equipment; performs root cause failure analysis to help prevent failures.
• Plans and performs engineering research, design development, or manufacturing/process engineering assignments, including responsibility for major subsections of complex projects using general engineering practices influenced by the general theme of reliability principles.
• Estimates engineering personnel needs and coordinates and supervises the use of other engineers and technicians to accomplish the objective of cost-effective reliability improvements for projects.
• Performs other work as assigned.

Required Qualifications/Education:

• 2+ years of experience

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a technical discipline (e.g., engineering field) or equivalent discipline (e.g., math, physics, etc.).
  
• Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education.
• Direct experience performing at least one reliability analysis; parts stress analysis, failure mode and effects, worse case circuit analysis, signal integrity, mean time between failure, probability of success, is required.
• Ability to read electrical schematics is required.
• General knowledge of electrical circuits and EEE parts is required.
• Knowledge of space and/or military requirements documents for reliability such as EEE-INST-002, TORs, etc. is preferred.
• Experience in SPICE analysis tools, with specific experience in P-SPICE and LT-SPICE is preferred.
• Experience in circuit analysis of digital and analog circuits is preferred.
• General knowledge of EEE part failure modes is recommended.
• Experience in statistical analysis and or statics theory is recommended.