Automation and Controls Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

The role

You will have ownership over the entire manufacturing line for hardware that enables advanced on-orbit AI processing and data center workloads. This includes the assembly, integration, and testing of compute electronics, memory, and networking.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and manage automation projects
• Architect, write, and debug PLC code
• Implement ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA compliant systems for robots, gantries, conveyors, and other manufacturing equipment
• Generate HMI screens to make machines easy to understand, operate, and troubleshoot
• Design electrical systems compliant to NEC, NFPA, & UL508A regulations
• Create schedules and budgets and motivate the team to achieve them

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, physics, or computer science discipline
• 1+ years of experience in industrial or factory automation design and implementation or involvement with a project team designing and building electro-mechanical/robotic/automated systems or products

Nice to have

• Ability to engineer creative, new approaches to problems while adhering to ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA safety requirements
• Experience with electromechanical systems
• Electrical sizing of motors, cables, circuit protection, VFD’s, motor starters, various other motion systems
• Design of fail-safe electrical circuits using both safety logic controllers and safety-rated relays
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting industrial electrical systems using tools like multimeters, oscilloscopes, EMI probes
• Proficiency in understanding and creating electrical schematics and single line diagrams (EPLAN preferred)
• Field bus networks, serial communication, and Ethernet communication
• Hands-on experience designing and commissioning high quality electrical panels and electro-mechanical systems
• Knowledge of NEC, NFPA, UL508A codes
• PLC programming, preferably Beckhoff TwinCAT structured text programming

Before you apply

• 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 eligibl

About the company

SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make human life on Mars possible. The Starmind team designs, builds, and operates the orbital compute fabric of the future.