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Sr. Automation & Controls Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Launch Hardware Engineering - Cape
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Cape Canaveral, FLFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Automation & Controls Engineer role focused on designing, implementing, and activating electrical and control systems for SpaceX's Starship launch facility at Cape Canaveral, including PLC/SCADA development, electrical panel design, and field wiring.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the design and development of new and existing control systems critical to the launch organization
  • Architect, write, and debug PLC code, emphasizing organized, structured, documented, maintainable, and reusable code for manufacturing applications
  • Design and implement the controls network infrastructure and interfaces to data acquisition systems trading cost, complexity and redundancy
  • Design, operate, upgrade, and maintain SCADA infrastructure at launch and production sites
  • Lay out new industrial electrical control panels that are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics
  • Manage electrical cabinet builds, field wiring, pneumatic and fluid plumbing
  • Manage the checkouts and activation testing of new equipment
  • Write robust and scalable procedures to activate technicians to quickly and reliably build and activate new control systems
  • Provide hands on troubleshooting support for a variety of active and critical ground support equipment tooling
  • Provide innovative solutions to special requirements and challenges faced by the team, which can range from integrating specialized equipment to challenging operating environment, packaging or loading

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics engineering, or other engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience with instrumentation power systems design, data acquisition systems, or programable controllers (internship/project experience qualifies)

Skills

Nice to have:Electronics test rack design and buildData acquisition setup and field measurementsBuild of electronics systems or test systems for local assembly or industrial applicationsElectrical control panels constructionElectrical schematic CAD (EPlan)Programming languagesPLC programmingHMI and SCADA programmingElectrical codes knowledge

Benefits

  • (Not specified in the description)
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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