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Welding Engineer

SpaceX· Materials Engineering - Starship/Raptor
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $140kPosted 3mo ago

About the role

Welding Engineer to support manufacturing and development of SpaceX’s launch vehicles, spacecraft, and satellites by developing, qualifying, and optimizing welding designs and processes across multiple welding methods; interface with design and manufacturing teams to enforce standardized practices and drive process improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, optimize, and qualify weld processes and parameters for multiple welding processes including electron beam welding, laser beam welding, gas tungsten arc welding, orbital tube welding, resistance welding, gas metal arc welding, friction stir welding, and plasma arc welding
  • Support production operations on full scale welded assemblies, providing direction to manufacturing engineers 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 development 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
  • Hands-on fabrication, manufacturing, or testing experience of welded assemblies

Skills

Required:Welding processes knowledgeCommunication and multitasking
Nice to have:NDE interpretationRoot cause analysisRobot programming for automated weldingTooling design for welded assembliesStandards knowledge

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 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+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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