Design Reliability Engineer

At Stoke, we believe a thriving space economy will enable a vibrant, sustainable, and equitable future here on Earth. That is why we’re building Nova, our fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicle. Designed for daily flight, Nova tackles the core challenges of space transportation by reducing cost, increasing availability, and improving reliability. By radically lowering launch costs and increasing flight cadence, we’re helping create a truly scalable space industry.

Our team is mission-driven, collaborative, and empowered to take ownership of their work. If you want to work alongside some of the most dedicated and talented people on Earth, we’d love to have you join us.

Description 

As a Design Reliability Engineer with a focus on system safety, you will be a key player in the integration of teams and products across all areas of the Nova launch system. You will define processes and tools to perform system safety and reliability analyses such as Functional Hazard Analyses (FHA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), Fault Tolerance Analysis (FTA), and Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP). You will work closely with engineers across the Nova team to perform system safety analyses on vehicle stages and subsystems, and to ensure consistency and completeness of these analyses across the vehicle. You will facilitate cross-disciplinary action and problem solving to improve system reliability. You must be organized, a good communicator, and excellent at identifying and solving problems related to the integration of complex systems. You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.  

 Key Responsibilities 

• Develop processes, tools, and templates for performing FHA, FMECA, FTA, and HAZOP analyses 
• Lead the overall effort for system safety analyses for the Nova team, and partner with responsible engineers across the system to complete analyses for their products 
• Identify problems and propose solutions to improve Nova launch system reliability, including novel solutions that go beyond simple component-level fault tolerance but improve system-level reliability without adding design complexity 
• Estimate component-level quantitative reliability and determine overall probability of various vehicle functional failure modes using the outputs of the FTA and FMECA 
• Communicate analysis results, discuss feedback, and refine analysis approaches with external entities including FAA, Space Force, launch service customers, and others 
• Partner with other Design Reliability Engineers and the Nova product development teams to facilitate communication between teams, negotiate interfaces, and identify and manage interdisciplinary design risks 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or similar field