Production Engineer Starship Electronics
Production Engineer Starship Electronics
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$ 95000 - 115000
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SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible with the ultimate goal ofenabling human life on Mars.
PRODUCTION ENGINEER (STARSHIP ELECTRONICS)
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
The Starship Electronics team has taken the challenge to develop hardware for the Starship spacecraft and SuperHeavy booster. In this role you will support production of all electrical systems from communications to power navigation and even crewed life support. This will be one of the most sophisticated and largest vehicles flown in space where low cost and high production rates are required to enable the mission.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop standardize and continuously improve process chains required to deliver Starship Electronics components
- Design and deliver new factory stations and production assets aimed at expanding capability reducing cycle time and improving yield
- Design and deliver mechanical tooling required to build test and deliver Avionics hardware. Tooling to include both custom mechanical tools (e.g. fixturing) as well as capital automation equipment
- Develop designformanufacturing (DFM) guidelines and maintain a collaborative relationship with design engineering to codesign the product and factory
- Act as an expert on lowcost highreliability manufacturing techniques for Aerospace electromechanical components
- Guide highlevel vehicle architecture and requirements trade studies to reduce vehicle cost and ease of production
- Analyze root cause and provide corrective actions for process escapes or process variability including mechanical processes on the final assembly (e.g. fastener torque) and electrical processes on printed circuit boards (e.g. soldering)
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelors degree in mechanical aerospace or industrial engineering
- 1 years of manufacturing engineering experience via project team research internship and/or professional experience
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with sharing information and influencing others across organizational lines
- Experience working both autonomously and as a team in a highly demanding environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills ability to make presentations to engineering team members internal customers and management
- Proficient in mechanical design tools and analysis including but not limited to mechanical CAD FEA GD&T/drawing creation and tolerance stack analysis
- Experience with PCB fabrication or PCBA assembly processes equipment and designformanufacturing (DFM) requirements
- Experience with electromechanical assembly processes equipment and designformanufacturing (DFM) requirements
- Experience designing production systems for controllers sensors cameras optics or longrange RF communications as demonstrated by successful fielding of multiple products
- Experience with process failure modes and effects analysis (PFMEA) with demonstrated corrective actions to reduce process risk and increase process control
- Experience introducing capital equipment / automating processes including process control and preventative maintenance plans
- Experience working in a highvolume or highreliability manufacturing environment
- Experience reducing processing cost through cycle time labor time reliability / yield or other forms of value stream evaluation
- Proficiency in pulling and manipulating data via one or more programming languages (eg. SQL python)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required to support critical project milestones
- Occasional travel may be required to Starbase Texas and/or offsite vendor locations
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range:
Production Engineer/Level I: $95000.00 $115000.00/per year
Production Engineer/Level II: $110000.00 $130000.00/per year
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a casebycase basis and may vary based on the following considerations: jobrelated knowledge and skills education and experience.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for longterm incentives in the form of company stock stock options or longterm cash awards as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical vision and dental coverage access to a 401(k) retirement plan short and longterm disability insurance life insurance paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To 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. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceXs Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to.
Employment Type
Full Time
