SpaceX is hiring a Build Engineer for the Starship team, responsible for developing and qualifying processes for high-rate, mixed-product manufacturing of propulsion, avionics, and welded structural assemblies. Your work will directly enable efficient production through design for manufacturing, automation, and process optimization.
What You'll Do
- Develop and perform acceptance testing of manufacturing processes, techniques, and tools to enable efficient and high-rate manufacturing.
- Design and implement precision tooling to eliminate assembly error, improve quality, and minimize cycle time.
- Automate novel processes to ensure repeatability on high-rate manufacturing lines.
- Work closely with design engineering teams to influence flight design and vehicle architecture with design for manufacturing improvements.
- Develop and/or automate in-situ inspection techniques to increase yield and decrease cycle time.
- Manage transition of parts and assemblies from development to high-rate production.
- Challenge and simplify requirements to optimize processes and reduce overhead.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, or another engineering discipline.
- 1+ years of manufacturing and process design experience (internship and academic experience is applicable).
Nice to Have
- Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
- Hands-on project experience with mixed value stream or high-rate manufacturing lines, focusing on maximizing yield and increasing rate.
- Proficiency in mechanical assembly methods, testing, failure mode effects analysis, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with integration and testing of propulsion, thermal, electrical, and/or structural systems.
- Prior experience with developing, maintaining, and improving weld processes and weld inspection techniques, inclusive of automation.
- Experience using SQL or other data management structures to inform priorities and measure performance.
Work Mode
This position is onsite.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, 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.
