Build Reliability Engineer
Castelion · Torrance, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for each section present. We need to include only sections with real content. The posting includes: About Castelion (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (multiple bullet-like paragraphs), Requirements and Skills (list), maybe Benefits (stock incentives, medical, vision, dental, PTO). Also maybe ITAR Requirements (but that's a requirement; could be part of Requirements). Also maybe Compliance and Training is part of responsibilities. We need to follow rules: Use
for each section present. We need to include only sections with real content. The posting includes: About Castelion (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (multiple bullet-like paragraphs), Requirements and Skills (list), maybe Benefits (stock incentives, medical, vision, dental, PTO). Also maybe ITAR Requirements (but that's a requirement; could be part of Requirements). Also maybe Compliance and Training is part of responsibilities. We need to follow rules: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to decide sections: About Castelion (intro paragraph). Responsibilities (multiple bullet points). Requirements and Skills (list). Benefits (stock incentives, medical/vision/dental, PTO). Possibly ITAR Requirements could be part of Requirements. Could also have a Compliance and Training subsection but that's part of responsibilities.
We must not create Pay or Schedule sections because not mentioned.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract.
About Castelion paragraph: "Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. We design, build, and test next generation weapon systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge in defense capabilities."
That's prose.
Responsibilities: The posting lists many responsibilities in paragraphs, each starting with a bold heading? Actually they have headings like "Design and Manufacturing", "Inspection and Test Process", "Corrective Action Preventive Action", "Nonconformance Management", "Compliance and Training". Under each there are sentences. We need to turn these into a list (
- ) of duties. Probably each bullet can be a sentence or combined. We need to preserve all substantive info; we can break each sentence into separate
- or combine related. Safer to make each distinct responsibility as a
- . Let's extract each bullet:
From "Design and Manufacturing":
- Work closely with design, manufacturing, and operations teams to ensure reliability and quality considerations are integrated into all phases of the product lifecycle.
- Participate in Design and Build Reviews to ensure design for manufacturability and inspectability.
- Reviews and approves Process Plans, specifications, and build documentation for completeness, accuracy, regulatory compliance, and quality objectives.
- Support the development and implementation of internal processes and manufacturing software to optimize production efficiency, product quality, and change control.
- Facilitate the engineering change control process (ECR/ECO) with a focus on traceability and impact alignment to maintain clean configuration genealogy.
From "Inspection and Test Process":
- Ensure appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques have been considered to validate design and manufacturing processes.
- Develop and implement Quality Control Processes, and Standards, and Planning, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards and regulations.
- Design or procures new measurement equipment as required to achieve required inspections with maximum efficiency.
- Validates 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.
- Evaluates and analyzes production quality landscape (maybe incomplete sentence). Actually text: "Evaluates and analyzes production quality landscapeUtilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance.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." This is a run-on; we need to split into sensible bullets:
- Utilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance.
- Use data to make landscape transparent and drive project prioritization.
- Ensure that issues related to product reliability are a primary focus.
- Drive achievement of quality targets through a review hierarchy with appropriate levels of management.
From "Corrective Action Preventive Action":
- Utilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance. (duplicate maybe)
- Leverage tools like FMEA and statistical analysis to identify and prevent quality and reliability issues.
- Lead, facilitate, and participate in root cause investigations and ensure appropriate action to prevent recurrence.
From "Nonconformance Management":
- Support review of all nonconformance conditions for adequate resolution and rationale prior to closure.
- Lead containment functions to include impact and risk analysis.
- Oversee control of all non-conforming hardware.
From "Compliance and Training":
- Support efforts to implement and adhere to Quality Management System policies and other regulatory requirements.
- Facilitate creation of training plans and materials for technician and inspector competency.
- Develop training materials and provide support to end-users to ensure effective utilization of manufacturing and management system software.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing product reliability and risk mitigation.
We have duplicates (Utilize reliability and quality data... appears multiple times). We should keep each unique bullet; but we can keep duplicates if they appear in different sections? Might be redundant but we need to preserve all substantive info; duplicates are still substantive but we could deduplicate to avoid repetition. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplicates are still substantive info; removing them could be considered summarizing away detail? Might be okay to keep one instance; but safer to keep each as appears, even if duplicate. However that may cause repetitive bullets. I'd keep them as they appear; but we can note they are separate responsibilities albeit similar.
Now Requirements and Skills: The posting says "Requirements and SkillsMinimum 4+ years in reliability and/or quality engineering role. Preferred Qualifications Experience in aerospace or defense/government programs is highly desirable.Experience with implementation and enhancement of Manufacturing Enterprise Software.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of implementing effective solutions to complex reliability and quality challenges.Experience supporting diverse, high volume, production teams during production ramp-up.Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Metrology, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plans, and various problem-solving approaches.Dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability. Leadership QualitiesBias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.High Commitment, High Initiative. A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion's mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company's technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.Clear Communicator. Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity. ITAR RequirementsTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State."
We need to turn this into a list (
- ) of requirements/skills. Also we might separate "Requirements" and "Preferred Qualifications" but we can just list all.
We need to preserve all substantive info: Minimum 4+ years..., Preferred Qualifications..., etc.
We also have Benefits: "All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment at Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers four weeks of paid time off per year."
Thus Benefits section: bullet list: long-term stock incentives; comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance; four weeks of paid time off per year.
We also have maybe "Pay" not mentioned, so omit.
Now we need to output HTML with sections:
About Castelion
...
then Responsibilities
- ...
...
then Requirements and Skills
...
then Benefits
...
We must not include any extra sections like Pay, Schedule.
We need to ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting includes an EEO statement: "Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status." That's boilerplate EEO; we should remove it.
Also there is a sentence about ITAR Requirements which we included as part of Requirements.
Now we need to ensure we preserve all substantive info from the responsibilities sections, including the duplicates. Let's list them exactly as extracted, preserving wording.
I'll copy each bullet exactly as in text, but ensure grammar.
From Design and Manufacturing:
- Work closely with design, manufacturing, and operations teams to ensure reliability and quality considerations are integrated into all phases of the product lifecycle.
- Participate in Design and Build Reviews to ensure design for manufacturability and inspectability.
- Reviews and approves Process Plans, specifications, and build documentation for completeness, accuracy, regulatory compliance, and quality objectives.
- Support the development and implementation of internal processes and manufacturing software to optimize production efficiency, product quality, and change control.
- Facilitate the engineering change control process (ECR/ECO) with a focus on traceability and impact alignment to maintain clean configuration genealogy.
From Inspection and Test Process:
- Ensure appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques have been considered to validate design and manufacturing processes.
- Develop and implement Quality Control Processes, and Standards, and Planning, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards and regulations.
- Design or procures new measurement equipment as required to achieve required inspections with maximum efficiency.
- Validates 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.
- Utilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance.
- Use data to make landscape transparent and drive project prioritization.
- Ensure that issues related to product reliability are a primary focus.
- Drive
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to decide sections: About Castelion (intro paragraph). Responsibilities (multiple bullet points). Requirements and Skills (list). Benefits (stock incentives, medical/vision/dental, PTO). Possibly ITAR Requirements could be part of Requirements. Could also have a Compliance and Training subsection but that's part of responsibilities. We must not create Pay or Schedule sections because not mentioned. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract. About Castelion paragraph: "Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. We design, build, and test next generation weapon systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge in defense capabilities." That's prose. Responsibilities: The posting lists many responsibilities in paragraphs, each starting with a bold heading? Actually they have headings like "Design and Manufacturing", "Inspection and Test Process", "Corrective Action Preventive Action", "Nonconformance Management", "Compliance and Training". Under each there are sentences. We need to turn these into a list (
- ) of duties. Probably each bullet can be a sentence or combined. We need to preserve all substantive info; we can break each sentence into separate
- or combine related. Safer to make each distinct responsibility as a
- . Let's extract each bullet:
From "Design and Manufacturing":
- Work closely with design, manufacturing, and operations teams to ensure reliability and quality considerations are integrated into all phases of the product lifecycle.
- Participate in Design and Build Reviews to ensure design for manufacturability and inspectability.
- Reviews and approves Process Plans, specifications, and build documentation for completeness, accuracy, regulatory compliance, and quality objectives.
- Support the development and implementation of internal processes and manufacturing software to optimize production efficiency, product quality, and change control.
- Facilitate the engineering change control process (ECR/ECO) with a focus on traceability and impact alignment to maintain clean configuration genealogy.
From "Inspection and Test Process":
- Ensure appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques have been considered to validate design and manufacturing processes.
- Develop and implement Quality Control Processes, and Standards, and Planning, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards and regulations.
- Design or procures new measurement equipment as required to achieve required inspections with maximum efficiency.
- Validates 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.
- Evaluates and analyzes production quality landscape (maybe incomplete sentence). Actually text: "Evaluates and analyzes production quality landscapeUtilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance.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." This is a run-on; we need to split into sensible bullets:
- Utilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance.
- Use data to make landscape transparent and drive project prioritization.
- Ensure that issues related to product reliability are a primary focus.
- Drive achievement of quality targets through a review hierarchy with appropriate levels of management.
From "Corrective Action Preventive Action":
- Utilize reliability and quality data to generate reports, identify trends, and recommend improvements to enhance product and process reliability and performance. (duplicate maybe)
- Leverage tools like FMEA and statistical analysis to identify and prevent quality and reliability issues.
- Lead, facilitate, and participate in root cause investigations and ensure appropriate action to prevent recurrence.
From "Nonconformance Management":
- Support review of all nonconformance conditions for adequate resolution and rationale prior to closure.
- Lead containment functions to include impact and risk analysis.
- Oversee control of all non-conforming hardware.
From "Compliance and Training":
- Support efforts to implement and adhere to Quality Management System policies and other regulatory requirements.
- Facilitate creation of training plans and materials for technician and inspector competency.
- Develop training materials and provide support to end-users to ensure effective utilization of manufacturing and management system software.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing product reliability and risk mitigation.
We have duplicates (Utilize reliability and quality data... appears multiple times). We should keep each unique bullet; but we can keep duplicates if they appear in different sections? Might be redundant but we need to preserve all substantive info; duplicates are still substantive but we could deduplicate to avoid repetition. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplicates are still substantive info; removing them could be considered summarizing away detail? Might be okay to keep one instance; but safer to keep each as appears, even if duplicate. However that may cause repetitive bullets. I'd keep them as they appear; but we can note they are separate responsibilities albeit similar.
Now Requirements and Skills: The posting says "Requirements and SkillsMinimum 4+ years in reliability and/or quality engineering role. Preferred Qualifications Experience in aerospace or defense/government programs is highly desirable.Experience with implementation and enhancement of Manufacturing Enterprise Software.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of implementing effective solutions to complex reliability and quality challenges.Experience supporting diverse, high volume, production teams during production ramp-up.Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Metrology, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plans, and various problem-solving approaches.Dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability. Leadership QualitiesBias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.High Commitment, High Initiative. A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion's mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company's technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.Clear Communicator. Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity. ITAR RequirementsTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State."
We need to turn this into a list (
- ) of requirements/skills. Also we might separate "Requirements" and "Preferred Qualifications" but we can just list all.
We need to preserve all substantive info: Minimum 4+ years..., Preferred Qualifications..., etc.
We also have Benefits: "All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment at Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers four weeks of paid time off per year."
Thus Benefits section: bullet list: long-term stock incentives; comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance; four weeks of paid time off per year.
We also have maybe "Pay" not mentioned, so omit.
Now we need to output HTML with sections:
About Castelion
...
thenResponsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements and Skills
- ...
Benefits
- ...
- ) of requirements/skills. Also we might separate "Requirements" and "Preferred Qualifications" but we can just list all.
We need to preserve all substantive info: Minimum 4+ years..., Preferred Qualifications..., etc.
We also have Benefits: "All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment at Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers four weeks of paid time off per year."
Thus Benefits section: bullet list: long-term stock incentives; comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance; four weeks of paid time off per year.
We also have maybe "Pay" not mentioned, so omit.
Now we need to output HTML with sections: