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Process Development Engineer

SpaceX· Process Development
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $115kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Process Development Engineer focused on building reliability by developing and improving business processes, data integrity, and product reliability for SpaceX rocket manufacturing, reuse, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement, and continuously improve business processes and policies for nonconforming hardware management, configuration management, manufacturing and assembly, product traceability, rocket reusability and maintenance, and other critical business/production systems.
  • Develop business use cases and software requirements for improvements to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
  • Execute software tasks, potentially including writing scripts, front and back end development, and relational database querying.
  • Own ongoing support and improvement of developed software including technical debt, operational improvement, and new business process or logic implementation.
  • Create AI prompts, workflows, and/or agents that execute or supplement internal processes and applications
  • Act as subject matter expert in multiple SpaceX processes and systems for complex data gathering, troubleshooting, and problem solving.
  • Develop standardized metrics for the Production and Quality organizations.
  • Develop, review, and approve procedures ensuring completeness, accuracy, regulatory and customer compliance, and quality objectives.
  • Develop and execute training and communication plans during major process changes
  • Collaborate across Engineering, Production, Test, Launch, Mission Operations, ERP, Supply Chain, Mission Management, Customer Contracts, and Management to ensure efficiency and consistency across the organization.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering field
  • 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing or production environment

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringManufacturing or production experience
Nice to have:ERP systemsSoftware development (scripts, front/back end, SQL)AI prompts/workflowsLean and quality tools (PFMEA, APQP, SPC, DOE, Six Sigma)Statistical analysis tools (DOE, SPC, ANOVA, Minitab)SQL database knowledgeProgramming languages (VBA, Python, .NET, Flask, JavaScript, C#, RESTful API)Quality Management Systems (AS 9100, ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 13485)

Benefits

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

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