Manufacturing Engineer, Machine Shop (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.

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER, MACHINE SHOP (STARSHIP)

As an engineer at SpaceX, you will have the opportunity to utilize your knowledge, experience, and creativity to develop novel solutions at the cutting edge of space technology. You will work on hardware that will deliver satellites into earth orbit, ferry humans to and from the international space station, and ultimately extend humanity’s reach beyond the earth and moon. You will own the relationship between our engineering, production, and quality teams, with a focus on inspection reliability and efficiency, driving design for manufacturability improvements on the hardware you own in the machine shop. You will aggressively pursue improved inspection processes the require lower touch time and optimized requirements to meet flight production rates without sacrificing reliability. You will provide input into the design and development of new and existing hardware—particularly optimizing for manufacturability and inspectability—and take a lead role in inspection processes within production on our current and next-generation vehicles, including Starship machining operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Determine inspection method (e.g. manual inspection, CMMs, Keyance, etc.) that results in maximum utilization, maximize machine uptime and reduce part stagnation

• Increase inspection throughput by evaluating and incorporating automation opportunities, focused on efficiency gains, such as standardizing rework guides, eliminating redundant checks, and optimizing frequency of inspections

• Maintain tight feedback loops with the design and m

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