Manufacturing Engineer, Inspection (Starship Machining)

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.

• ◆Determine inspection plans for a wide range of components machined at SpaceX or suppliers, with the goal of ensuring piece part quality and function while optimizing for cycle time, machine utilization, and inspection repeatability/reliability
• ◆Drive improvements to existing inspection processes, including reducing CMM inspection times through optimized programming, fixturing, and workflow streamlining
• ◆Increase inspection throughput and improve non-conformance management by driving projects such as standardizing rework guides, eliminating redundant checks, and optimizing frequency of inspections
• ◆Maintain tight feedback loops with the design and manufacturing teams to improve design for manufacturability and design for inspectability (e.g., refining GD&T datum structures and callouts for stable, repeatable measurements)
• ◆Investigate and implement novel inspection equipment and technologies that improve the factory’s capabilities and improve inspection time, accuracy, and repeatability
• ◆Collaborate with other SpaceX machine shops and quality facilities to share inspection capabilities, develop resources, and address capacity, scheduling, and process alignment issues as necessary
• ◆Contain non-conforming products created by the shop and work to implement short-term and long-term corrective actions after completing thorough root cause investigations

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
• ✓1+ years of machine shop, manufacturing, quality, and/or inspection experience (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

• ✓Experienced with a variety of precision conventional (e.g. hand tools) and advanced (e.g. CMMs, laser scanning, 3D imaging, photogrammetry) 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 used to manufacture high-precision parts
• ✓Experience with CMM programming

• ✓Ability to work extended hours, weekends, and offsite as needed
• ✓Ability to lift/carry up to 25lbs (unassisted) for 1-2 hours per day

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• ✓To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, 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 eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

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