Reliability Engineer Staff
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026. Lockheed Martin scores A on the Alion truth index.
Standard Job Description
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At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
As Reliability Engineer you’ll work on a broad range of projects, in both a laboratory and manufacturing environment, that will challenge you to learn and grow in your career. Working side by side with designers, test and manufacturing engineers, you’ll use your education, experience and growing expertise to develop and evaluate new and innovative technology to survive in the most hostile of environments.
In this role the you will:
- Develop, coordinate, and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and Design of Experiments (DOE) constructs.
- Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures to achieve required levels of product reliability.
- Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze variables that may affect product and processes.
- Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
- Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to meet company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives.
- Architect predictive risk models: develop mathematical models to identify units, batches, or processes that pose excessive failure risk.
- Propose design or formulation changes, as necessary, to improve system and/or process reliability.
- Determine which units or batches require environmental testing and specify the minimum number of samples needed to obtain statistically valid data.
The information below reflects the standard job description for this position:
Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (doe) constructs. Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability. Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
Basic Qualifications
Experience in 6 of the following:
- Execution of Reliability Program Plans
- Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
- Reliability Predictions and Analysis
- Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Critical Items List development and management
- Availability Analysis
- Maintainability Analysis and Predictions
- Familiarity with Reliability Handbooks and Standards (i.e.; MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-1629, MIL-STD-1543, MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472)
- Application of probability and statistics to support decisions regarding sample size, burn-in life testing and failure analysis investigations
Ability to obtain/maintain Secret security clearance; US Citizenship Required
Desired Skills
Ground and Missile Systems experience
Previous experience leading reliability projects or teams
Proven experience in all facets of the conduct of a reliability program to include:
- Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS),
- Reliability Program Plan development and execution
- Reliability Predictions and Analysis,
- Failure Modes,
- Effects and Criticality Analysis,
- Critical Items List, Availability,
- Maintainability Analysis and Predictions,
- Fault Tree Analysis,
- Familiarity with Reliability Handbooks and Standards i.e.; MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-1629, MIL-STD-1543, MILHDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472,
- Application of probability and statistics to support decisions regarding sample size,
- Burn-in life testing and failure analysis investigations
Proven behaviors of a systems thinker; selects and applies appropriate systems thinking skills to solve complex problems and implement constructive change
Missile and Ground systems design and test experience with one or more subsystems or fields outside of Systems Engineering
Active or Current Secret clearance
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.