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Build Engineer (Starship) - Nights

SpaceX· Booster Integration Engineering
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Hybrid (Starbase, TX)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Build engineer on the Starship team responsible for developing and qualifying processes for high-rate, mixed-product manufacturing of propulsion, avionics, and welded structures, with focus on design for manufacturing, poka-yoke, yield improvement, and automation to minimize takt and cycle times.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and perform acceptance testing of manufacturing processes, techniques, and tools to enable efficient and high-rate manufacturing
  • Design and implement precision tooling to eliminate assembly error, improve quality, and minimize cycle time
  • Automate novel processes to ensure repeatability on high-rate manufacturing lines
  • Work closely with design engineering teams to influence flight design and vehicle architecture with design for manufacturing improvements
  • Develop and/or automate in-situ inspection techniques to increase yield and decrease cycle time
  • Manage transition of parts and assemblies from development to high-rate production
  • Challenge and simplify requirements to optimize processes and reduce overhead

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of manufacturing and process design experience (internship and academic experience is applicable)

Skills

Required:Aerospace engineeringManufacturing process designDesign for manufacturing
Nice to have:Poka-yoke / error-proofingAutomationIn-situ inspection techniquesWeld processes & inspectionSQL / data managementPropulsion / thermal / electrical / structural systems integration
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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