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Product Development Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Product Supply Chain Reliability
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Product Development Engineer within SpaceX's Starlink program. Responsible for bringing up new hardware programs with contract manufacturers, driving NPI to production ramp, and ensuring schedule, quality, reliability, and supply chain robustness.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the strategic execution of hardware programs, ensuring alignment with overall project goals, reliability objectives, and mass-production requirements
  • Create and manage detailed project schedules, drive day-to-day activities to meet overall project objectives, and perform critical path management to ensure key decision milestones are met across NPI, qualification, and production ramp phases
  • Lead multi-functional communication between internal project teams and external vendors/contract manufacturers, facilitating alignment while holding teams accountable
  • Provide timely issue resolution, proactively identify risks, and drive technical and supply-chain issues to closure by bringing together key partners for decision making
  • Facilitate clear and consistent communication and alignment between internal teams (Product Design, Engineering, Reliability, Manufacturing, and Operations) and external contract manufacturers/OEM partners
  • Provide strong leadership and support during prototype, engineering validation, and production builds, while ensuring timely delivery of components, proactive problem-solving, and definition of robust validation and reliability test plans
  • Oversee the release process for parts, assemblies, and enclosures, ensuring timely and accurate releases while holding teams accountable for meeting release deadlines
  • Provide clear project status and risk assessments to executive management, filtering and distilling relevant information for the right audience

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 3+ years in a quality, reliability, supply chain, or engineering role

Skills

Required:Project managementCross-functional leadershipCommunication
Nice to have:New Product Introduction (NPI)Hardware development
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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