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Process Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Build Reliability Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Process Engineer focused on Starship build reliability, developing global manufacturing procedures, maximizing quality through efficient production, and driving continuous production improvement. Responsible for build-induced vehicle risk and collaboration across fabrication, inspection, design, and quality teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop manufacturing, integration, assembly, welding, NDE, cleanliness, and checkouts processes from the ground up, then enforce consistency across different work centers.
  • Design and implement tooling for work access, mechanical/avionics/propulsion testing, build fixturing, lifting & rigging, and fluids.
  • Define and document inspection requirements and procedures.
  • Create training for production and inspection processes.
  • Author planning, test plans, and training to execute processes and collect data, ensuring efficient and stable quality at increasing production volumes.
  • Contain non-conforming hardware in collaboration with quality, production, and design groups to ensure systemic issues are corrected, and risk is managed for the fleet.
  • Work closely with design teams to improve DFM and requirement fulfillment. Aggressively modify requirements and manufacturing process where design intent and production rate are incompatible.
  • Conduct build quality reviews to identify repeat and high impact issues. Drive corrective action within and outside of your work center.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, manufacturing engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, or engineering physics.
  • 1+ years in manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies).

Skills

Required:Manufacturing process developmentTooling design and build fixturesInspection planning and standardizationTraining and data collectionQuality containment and corrective actionDesign for manufacturability (DFM) collaborationBuild quality reviews
Nice to have:ITAR awareness and compliance
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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