Backed by a16z, Index and NEA.
About the role
You are our first Reliability Engineer, so you are not inheriting a process: you are deciding what it is. There is a well-worn reliability playbook in this industry, developed at large primes on programs with hundreds of engineers, and most of it will make us slower without making the rocket better. Your job is to figure out which parts earn their keep here, implement those, and leave the rest on the shelf.
What they're looking for
- 5-8 years in reliability, mission assurance, or systems engineering with real reliability ownership, on hardware where failure had consequences
- Command of the core methods: FMECA, fault tree analysis, common-cause analysis, allocation, Weibull and life-data analysis
- The judgment to right-size. You have seen reliability process applied where it did not belong, and you have opinions about the alternative
- Physics-of-failure instinct: you want to know why the part broke, not just how often parts like it break
- Hands-on test experience. You have stood next to hardware, watched it misbehave, and worked the anomaly to root cause
- Python sufficient to run Monte Carlos, fit life data, and build tools your teammates use without your help
More about this role
Cowboy Space Corporation is solving the global energy crisis by building the infrastructure for abundant, resilient space-based solar energy. We are tackling one of humanity’s most complex engineering challenges with a world-class team dedicated to delivering a revolutionary power platform. Cowboy Space Corporation is transforming how civilization powers, computes and connects - from orbit to Earth.
Cowboy Space Corporation is building the infrastructure to power and connect the orbital economy. Our modular, scalable satellites collect sunlight in Low Earth Orbit to enable multiple integrated applications: transmitting energy via infrared lasers (space-to-earth and space-to-space), powering on-orbit high-performance computing clusters (GPU/TPU), and providing secure, high bandwidth optical data transport.
Current energy and data systems rely on complex logistics and outdated infrastructure. Cowboy Space Corporation overcomes these challenges by enabling direct, on-demand, secure, and scalable energy distribution and data processing from space. This will revolutionize how we operate in orbit and on Earth, supporting the rapidly expanding space industrial base, ISAM (In-Space...
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