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Test Engineer, Avionics (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Avionics Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Hands-on test engineer role designing, building, and scaling test equipment and automation for wire harness production and vehicle integration in Starship program; focuses on defect-free harness testing to support high-rate production and rapid flight cadence.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop production test equipment, test racks, and automation systems to verify wire harnesses and electromechanical assembly quality at scale
  • Define and validate test methods that ensure harnesses meet extreme reuse requirements while remaining flight-worthy, while driving root-cause analysis and corrective actions on test failures
  • Scale test capacity and throughput to support production rates of thousands of vehicles per year and own the transition of new test capabilities into sustained production use

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace, or manufacturing engineering
  • 1+ years of experience in design, manufacturing, and/or production of mechanical, electrical, or fluids systems (internship and collegiate extracurricular engineering project experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Test equipment design
Nice to have:Wire harness testing methodsAutomation programming/scriptingMechanical aptitude

Benefits

  • Not specified in description
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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