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Build Reliability Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship COPV Engineering
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Westminster, MD$100k - $115kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Build Reliability Engineer responsible for developing global manufacturing procedures, driving continuous production improvements, and managing build-induced vehicle risk for Starship through reliability-focused fabrication, inspection, tooling, and data-driven processes.

Responsibilities

  • Develop manufacturing, integration, assembly, welding, NDE, cleanliness, and checkouts processes from the ground up, then enforce consistency across different work centers
  • Design and implement tooling for work access, mechanical/avionics/propulsion testing, build fixturing, lifting & rigging, and fluids
  • Define and document inspection requirements and procedures
  • Create training for production and inspection processes
  • Author planning, test plans, and training to execute processes and collect data, ensuring efficient and stable quality at increasing production volumes
  • Contain non-conforming hardware in collaboration with quality, production, and design groups to ensure systemic issues are corrected, and risk is managed for the fleet
  • Work closely with design teams to improve DFM and requirement fulfillment
  • Aggressively modify requirements and manufacturing process where design intent and production rate are incompatible
  • Conduct build quality reviews to identify repeat and high impact issues. Drive corrective action within and outside of your work center

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, manufacturing engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, or physics
  • 1+ years in manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Manufacturing process developmentTooling designInspection planningData collection and visualizationNon-conforming hardware containmentProcess improvementBuild quality reviews
Nice to have:Design for manufacturability (DFM) collaborationCAD toolsWelding/NDT

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, including stock or long-term cash awards
  • discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (up to 3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays
  • paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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