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Lead Starship Engineer (Ship Vehicle Assembly)

SpaceX· Ship Vehicle Assembly
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Lead Starship Engineer responsible for production of the Starship airframe weldment, leading a team to assemble integrated payload volume, PEZ, raceway, tank cleaning, and Megabay 2 stacking, while partnering with integration, propulsion, and quality teams to support airframe integration and future vehicle programs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of build engineers designing the production system
  • Mentor and foster the continual technical and professional development of team members
  • Develop lean manufacturing processes, factory infrastructure, tools, and documentation to enable efficient and high-rate production
  • Work with the design engineering team to drive simplicity into the vehicle systems at a complex level
  • Build long-term direction for vehicle architecture and factory infrastructures to meet evolving needs of the program and company
  • Coordinate and execute development, qualification, and acceptance testing of systems and tooling needed to meet hardware deadlines
  • Create original CAD models and prints for flight and/or tooling components
  • Execute design for manufacturability changes to enhance production efficiency
  • Create and maintain build schedules and detailed work instructions
  • Develop process parameters, requirements, and drive next generation architectures

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or aerospace engineering
  • 2+ years of process development and build experience on integrated assemblies (internship and academic experience not applicable)

Skills

Required:Team leadershipProcess developmentCAD modelingDFX / design for manufacturability
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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