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Operations Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Mechanisms Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $140kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Operations Engineering team supports SpaceX's Starship program in Hawthorne through strategic planning, optimization of production processes, and allocation of resources. Looking for engineers to lead cross-functional teams to create a factory of the future that optimizes operations in a fast-paced environment, applying operations engineering, engineering, and data science to complex multi-resource optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own factory and production area layouts following the rules of clear visual indicators and linear flow principles
  • Conduct job walks with vendors, negotiate prices, and hold vendors to schedule
  • Host process walks of production lines, and ask questions to delete or simplify process steps and kick off changes
  • Work as part of a team to develop and manage production strategy to mitigate future production risks and seize emerging opportunities to improve quality, output, safety, and cost
  • Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, and cost problems for production to guide decisions
  • Identify operational challenges within the organization, determine root cause, and develop appropriate solutions
  • Develop and track key performance measures, and identify decision points and actions to optimize production to meet demand
  • Actively develop system and process improvements within and between production elements

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of professional or internship experience in a manufacturing environment

Skills

Required:Factory/layout designVendor managementProcess optimizationProduction strategyData analysis toolsRoot cause analysisKPIs and decision modelingSystem/process improvement

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)
  • 10 or more paid holidays per year
  • various other discounts and perks
  • potential long-term incentives including stock or long-term cash awards
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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