Automation & Controls Specialist (Starship)

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.

AUTOMATION & CONTROLS SPECIALIST (STARSHIP)

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Starship will be the world's most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry in excess of 100 metric tons to Earth orbit.

The Launch Hardware Automation & Controls Specialist role will be hands-on in designing and activating the systems that build and launch Starship. The successful applicant will work as part of a team of elite engineers designing and improving the electrical and control systems across our rocket launch facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide innovative solutions to special requirements and challenges faced by the team, which can range from integrating specialized equipment to challenging operating environment, packaging or loading.

• Execute the integration and activation testing of new equipment.

• Manage electrical cabinet builds, field wiring, pneumatic, and fluid plumbing.

• Experience with authoring detailed manufacturing planning work orders.

• Provide hands-on troubleshooting support for a variety of active and critical ground support equipment tooling.

• Write robust and scalable procedures to activate technicians to quickly and reliably build and commission control systems.

• Lay out new industrial electrical control panels that are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant and create electrical

Department: Starship Launch Hardware Engineering - Cape