Principal Build Reliability Engineer at Castelion in Torrance, CA

Job description

Why Castelion, Why Now Castelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability. This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function. Why Castelion, Why Now Castelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus and technical excellence are decisive advantages - and we are building a team that can deliver real capability, not just concepts. This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where your work will directly shape critical systems, influence major technical decisions, and have immediate, real-world impact. Principal Build Reliability Engineer Castelion is seeking a Build Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability of flight components and assemblies. This individual will evaluate product and process output data to drive improvements in manufacturing quality and actively represent quality objectives in design and development teams. Responsibilities This individual will evaluate product and process output data to drive improvements in manufacturing quality, and actively represent quality objectives in design and development teams Design for Manufacture Participating in Preliminary Design Review (PDR) / Critical Design Review (CDR) to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification and mitigation, and that appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods, have been considered Hands-on development of design for manufacturability through ensuring identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for manufacturability, First Article and Detailed Inspection planning, evaluation of previous non-conformances and lessons learned, and other manufacturing and quality tools as required Inspection and Test Process Development Leads inspection planning for new products through identification of features and gages, and integration with planned operations Designs or procures new measurement methods as required and integrates with existing processes Validates new and existing measurement and tests methods using process capability and measurement systems analysis (MSA) statistical tools Propose solutions to remove the need to verify product conformance through measurement, e.g. poka-yoke First Build Reviews and Walk downs Co-ordinates, schedules and facilitates objective First Build Reviews to ensure transparency of design intent, design requirements, design and manufacturing risks, and manufacturability of design Develop and maintains engineering walk down criteria for major product milestones to provide clear guidance to Production on engineering intent and acceptance criteria Identifies photo closeout requirements for complete as-built documentation Evaluates and analyzes production quality landscape Uses data to make landscape transparent and drive project prioritization Responsible for ensuring that issues related to product reliability are primary focus Drives achievement of quality targets through a review hierarchy with appropriate levels of management Ensure controls in place to prevent recurrence Root Cause and Corrective Action Investigations Leads, facilitates, and participates in root cause investigations in their respective area Deep dives using appropriate quality or analysis tools as required Ensures documentation of cause and corrective action is captured appropriately Ensures appropriate actions to prevent recurrence Containment Leads activity to support containment of all suspect products Provides gui