Manufacturing Engineer, Inspection (Starship Machining)

The role

You will own the relationship between engineering, production, and quality teams to improve inspection reliability and efficiency. You will develop inspection plans for machined components and drive design for manufacturability improvements on Starship machining hardware.

What you will do

• Determine inspection plans for components machined at SpaceX or suppliers
• Drive improvements to existing inspection processes and reduce CMM inspection times
• Increase inspection throughput and improve non-conformance management
• Maintain feedback loops with design and manufacturing teams to improve design for manufacturability and inspectability
• Investigate and implement novel inspection equipment and technologies
• Collaborate with other SpaceX machine shops and quality facilities
• Contain non-conforming products and implement corrective actions after root cause investigations

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
• 1+ years of machine shop, manufacturing, quality, and/or inspection experience
• Ability to work extended hours, weekends, and offsite as needed
• Ability to lift/carry up to 25lbs (unassisted) for 1-2 hours per day

Nice to have

• Experienced with a variety of precision conventional and advanced metrology systems
• Well-versed in GD&T
• Well versed in standard machine shop manufacturing processes and set ups
• Experience setting up and operating state-of-the art inspection equipment
• Experience operating CNCs, conventional lathe and mill machines, and other machine shop equipment
• Experience with CMM programming

Benefits

• Company stock or long-term cash awards
• Discretionary bonuses
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 10 or more paid holidays per year
• Paid sick leave

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company aims to make a future where humanity is exploring the stars possible.