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Original Job Post

SpaceX · 4 days ago

Production Engineer (Starship Electronics)

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

$95K/yr - $115K/yr

1+ years exp

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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 design-for-manufacturing (DFM) guidelines and maintain a collaborative relationship with design engineering to co-design the product and factory

Act as an expert on low-cost, high-reliability manufacturing techniques for Aerospace electro-mechanical components

Guide high-level 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)

Qualification

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Manufacturing EngineeringProject TeamResearchProfessional ExperienceProblem-SolvingMechanical designCADFEAGD&TPCB fabricationPCBA assemblyDesign-for-manufacturingElectro-mechanical assemblyProduction systems designFielding productsProcess failure modes analysisCorrective actionsProcess controlPreventative maintenanceHigh-volume manufacturingReducing processing costValue stream evaluationData manipulationSQLPythonCommunicationTeamworkInfluencingPresentation

Required

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or industrial engineering

1+ years of manufacturing engineering experience via project team, research, internship, and/or professional experience

Preferred

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 design-for-manufacturing (DFM) requirements

Experience with electro-mechanical assembly processes, equipment, and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) requirements

Experience designing production systems for controllers, sensors, cameras, optics, or long-range 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 high-volume or high-reliability 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)