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Sr. Manufacturing Engineer (Starship Components Operations)

SpaceX· Starship Components Manufacturing
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Hawthorne, CA$130k - $180kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior Manufacturing Engineer responsible for factory design, material flow, and process improvement for Starship/Super Heavy components. Focus on factory layout, vendor management, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to enable manufacturing, machining, and testing of flow control devices and mechanisms.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own factory and production area layouts following the rules of clear visual indicators and linear flow
  • Conduct job walks with vendors, negotiate prices and hold vendors to schedule
  • Host process walks of production lines, and ask questions to determine what process steps can be deleted or simplified and help kick off the changes
  • Execute on complex projects in the minimum amount of time and expense to the business
  • Get hands-on, lead by example to get projects completed rapidly
  • Actively develop system and process improvements between production teams
  • Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, cost problems for production to guide decisions

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of mechanical design/hands-on manufacturing experience (internships and project teams qualify)

Skills

Required:Factory layout designVendor managementProcess improvementProject executionHands-on manufacturingSystem/process analysis

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • employee stock purchase plan and potential discretionary bonuses
  • discounts and other perks
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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