Production Engineer (Starship Electronics)

PRODUCTION ENGINEER (STARSHIP ELECTRONICS)

The Starship Electronics team has taken the challenge to develop hardware for the Starship spacecraft and SuperHeavy booster. In this role you will support production of all electrical systems, from communications to power, navigation, and even crewed life support. This will be one of the most sophisticated and largest vehicles flown in space, where low cost and high production rates are required to enable the mission.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, standardize, and continuously improve process chains required to deliver Starship electronics components
• Design and deliver new factory stations and production assets, aimed at expanding capability, reducing cycle time, and improving yield
• Design and deliver mechanical tooling required to build, test, and deliver avionics hardware. Tooling to include both custom mechanical tools (e.g. fixturing) as well as capital automation equipment
• Develop design-for-manufacturing (DFM) guidelines and maintain a collaborative relationship with design engineering to co-design the product and factory
• Act as an expert on low-cost, high-reliability manufacturing techniques for aerospace electro-mechanical components
• Guide high-level vehicle architecture and requirements trade studies to reduce vehicle cost and ease of production
• Analyze root cause and provide corrective actions for process escapes or process variability, including mechanical processes on the final assembly (e.g. fastener torque) and electrical processes on printed circuit boards (e.g. soldering)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or industrial engineering
• 1+ years of manufacturing engineering experience via project team, research, internship, and/or professional experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with sharing information and influencing others across organizational lines
• Experience working both autonomously and as a team in a highly demanding environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to make presentations to engineering, team members, internal customers and management
• Proficient in mechanical design tools and analysis, including but not limited to mechanical CAD, FEA, GD&T/drawing creation, and tolerance stack analysis
• Experience with PCB fabrication or PCBA assembly processes, equipment, and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) requirements
• Experience with electro-mechanical assembly processes, equipment, and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) requirements
• Experience designing production systems for controllers, sensors, cameras, optics, or long-range RF communications, as demonstrated by successful fielding of multiple products
• Experience with process failure modes and effects analysis (PFMEA), with demonstrated corrective actions to reduce process risk and increase process control
• Experience introducing capital equipment / automating processes, including process control and preventative maintenance plans
• Experience working in a high-volume or high-reliability manufacturing environment
• Experience reducing processing cost through cycle time, labor time, reliability / yield, or other forms of value stream evaluation
• Proficiency in pulling and manipulating data via one or more programming languages (eg. SQL, python)

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Extended hours and weekend work may be required to support critical project milestones
• Occasional travel may be required to Starbase, Texas and/or off-site vendor locations

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Pay Range:
Level 1: $100,000.00 - $130,000.00
Level 2: $115,000.00 - $160,000.00