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Automation & Controls Specialist (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Launch Hardware Engineering - Cape
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Cape Canaveral, FLFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Hands-on role designing, activating, and maintaining electrical and control systems for Starship launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Part of a team of engineers developing systems for Starship and Super Heavy."

Responsibilities

  • Provide innovative solutions to special requirements and challenges faced by the team, including integrating specialized equipment and operating environment considerations.
  • Execute the integration and activation testing of new equipment.
  • Manage electrical cabinet builds, field wiring, pneumatic, and fluid plumbing.
  • Author detailed manufacturing planning work orders.
  • Provide hands-on troubleshooting support for active and critical ground support equipment tooling.
  • Write robust and scalable procedures to activate technicians to build and commission control systems.
  • Lay out new industrial electrical control panels compliant with NFPA79/NEC/UL508A and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics.
  • Participate in design and development of new and existing control systems critical to the launch organization.
  • Architect, write, and debug PLC code with maintainable, reusable structure for manufacturing applications.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
  • 3+ years of experience in a controls technician, controls specialist, or engineering role.

Skills

Required:Manufacturing planning work ordersElectrical cabinet designSchematic design (electrical, pneumatic, fluid)PLC programming
Nice to have:Industrial bus protocolsEPlan CADProgramming languages
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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