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Lead Supplier Development Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink - Electronic Sourcing
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Redmond, WA$135k - $190kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Lead Supplier Development Engineer responsible for building and leading a team to develop high-performing suppliers for Starlink hardware, ensuring reliability, cost, and delivery, and driving manufacturing/process improvements across supply chain, with a focus on electronics hardware and Starlink products.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a team responsible for the development of high-performing suppliers for Starlink Satellite and Gateway products. Ensuring reliability, cost, and delivery requirements to industrialize electronics hardware
  • Work closely with supply chain, engineering, design, operations & production to maintain consistency in supply chain policies and processes across the organization
  • Lead a team of engineers to execute: Reliability; Implement production part approval plan (PPAP) for hardware production qualification; Analyze supplier quality data, and partner with supplier development engineers to drive supplier improvements and manufacturing development program execution; Create, improve, and implement supplier quality and manufacturing processes; Review and understand supplier issues, and recommend the appropriate actions; Work closely with receiving, receiving inspection, supplier quality engineer, and assurance in purging suspect/non-conforming material from inventory and throughout the organization; Coordinate and participate in issue creation in MRB, root cause, failure analysis, and corrective action (8D); utilize various analysis tools and make corrective action and containment recommendations; Oversee and be accountable for supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations.
  • Manufacturing and Industrialization: Understand production processes and how purchased parts integrate into higher level assemblies; Conduct and implement Design for Manufacturing (DFM) feedback into our designs; Develop, analyze, and present process metrics to encourage design for manufacturability, quality, and supply chain improvements; Analyze and improve supplier processes for bottlenecks, yield, and rate limiters to meet throughput targets
  • Supplier Management: Manage supplier workflow and projects to ensure priorities are aligned with business needs; Develop schedules and plans to bring up new parts and processes in the supply chain, and support supplier execution against timeline; Lead, track, and improve supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for new products and design changes
  • Process Improvement: Develop, implement, and continuously improve business processes needed for receiving inspection operations, nonconforming hardware management, manufacturing and assembly, product traceability, and other critical business/production systems
  • Leadership: Create and implement action plans to rectify localized and systemic breakdowns with engineering, design, operations, maintenance, and leadership; Build relationships with cross-functional groups to identify, reduce, and ultimately eliminate impacts from vendor defects; Work with site leadership to develop future business models, establish road map and measures, and execute long-term strategic plans; Provide training on quality policies and techniques throughout the organization; Develop and mentor a team of engineers in a fast paced, dynamic environment

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 3+ years of experience in an engineering, supply chain or quality role

Skills

Required:Leadership and team managementPPAP (Production Part Approval Process)Supplier quality and manufacturing processesProject and supplier management
Nice to have:DFM (Design for Manufacturability)Data analysis and problem solvingSQL / Tableau

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards) and potential discretionary bonuses
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Various other discounts and perks
  • Paid vacation (3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick time (Washington State)
  • Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to Redmond office
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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