Supplier Development Engineer (Starlink)

The role

This person will develop, drive, and maintain suppliers from initial concept to full scale production. The role focuses on ensuring quality, reliability, and scalability of user terminal manufacturing for Starlink.

What you will do

• Lead experiments to drive design, development, and supply chain decisions for high volume manufacturing.
• Assess fabrication technology suitability for part design, automation, and mass production.
• Plan validation exercises for feasibility and manufacturing capability.
• Analyze validation results to enhance efficiency and reduce variability.
• Review progress of development activities at supplier locations.
• Drive process development and capability assessment activities.
• Work with SpaceX suppliers to support process development and data gathering.
• Set goals for results and provide performance reviews.
• Establish validation procedures for tooling and mass production.
• Review supplier tool design, process flow, equipment selection, DFM, and DOE proposals.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or STEM discipline.
• 1+ years of experience in supply chain engineering, supplier development/quality, manufacturing, or design engineering.
• Position is based in VN and requires being onsite.
• Must be willing to work long hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines.
• Up to 50% work week travel may be required to suppliers within Vietnam.

Nice to have

• Experience in PCBA manufacturing.
• Professional experience with SMT processes (e.g., screen printing, pick-and-place, reflow, wave soldering, and inspection).
• Engineering degree in electrical or mechanical engineering.
• Experience with statistical process control (SPC), Six Sigma certification, or Lean manufacturing principles applied.
• Proven track record of production ramp-up for high-volume electronics manufacturing, preferably in consumer electronics.
• Strong understanding of PCBA failure modes, defect analysis, and quality control methodologies (e.g., 8D, Fishbone, Pareto, PFMEA, DOE, SPC).
• Hands-on experience with failure analysis.
• Experience in analyzing large datasets and dispositioning hardware based on data.
• 5+ years of experience in SMT engineering, including leadership roles in supplier development or process engineering for complex consumer electronics systems and/or 5+ years of experience in Final Ass
• Expertise in advanced SMT technologies, such as fine-pitch components, BGA/CSP assembly, selective soldering, and high-mix/low-volume to high-volume transitions.

About the company

SpaceX is developing the technologies to make human life on Mars possible. Starlink is a low latency, broadband internet system enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites.