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Sr. Welding Engineer (Starship Components)

SpaceX· Materials Engineering - Starship/Raptor
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Hawthorne, CA$135k - $190kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior welding engineer leading a team responsible for advanced welding and joining processes for Starship/Super Heavy components, interfacing with design, tooling, automation, build, and test to qualify and optimize welding designs and processes across multiple welding technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, optimize, and qualify weld processes and parameters for multiple welding processes including but not limited to electron beam welding, laser beam welding, gas tungsten arc welding, orbital tube welding, resistance welding, and gas metal arc welding
  • Support production operations on full scale welded assemblies, providing direction to production technicians, specialists, and welders on correct techniques in a fast paced manufacturing environment
  • Support design, manufacturing, and materials engineering with root cause analysis
  • Work closely with design, tooling, automation, and test engineers to improve welded designs for manufacturing
  • Set up welding qualification test campaigns and interpret mechanical testing and NDE results
  • Work closely with NDE personnel to interpret weld quality on development and flight hardware in addition to developing and implementing innovative state-of-the-art NDE techniques
  • Develop and implement improved process control where possible using test and NDE results as feedback loop
  • Set up automated welding solutions in an effort to drive process consistency
  • Scope out new welding technologies that may be employed to improve rate/quality/efficiency

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience with hands-on fabrication, manufacturing, or testing experience with welded assemblies

Skills

Required:Welding process developmentNDE interpretationCross-functional collaborationTest and qualification planning
Nice to have:Root cause analysis

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave per company policy
  • Employee stock purchase plan and potential bonuses
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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