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Operations Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Launch Fluids Engineering - Starbase
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Join an aggressively paced, results-first engineering team at Starbase to design, build, activate, and improve fluid systems that fuel Starship. Develops and tests solutions in a fast-moving environment with hands-on fabrication and data-driven optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with shop and field fabrication teams to identify operational challenges, key process constraints, and opportunities to reduce work scope or implement process improvements - this role includes full ownership of executing these improvements
  • Create and maintain software tools and dashboards (Excel, SQL, Python) to empower engineering design teams and scale production of Starship launch infrastructure
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners in flight hardware logistics, supply chain, engineering, operations, production, and launch groups to synchronize efforts
  • Develop and maintain tools to track key performance metrics, perform statistical analysis, and support data-driven decision-making to optimize engineering and production processes
  • Maintain a tight feedback loop with the launch engineering team and fabrication teams to alter processes and procedures rapidly
  • Independently evaluate complex problems and arrive at solutions to seemingly impractical problems that best support the program
  • Hands-on approach to tackling issues with production or engineering team

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
  • 1+ years of experience in a production, manufacturing, test, integration, or launch engineering role
  • 1+ years of experience using Excel, SQL, or Python/R for data analysis or project scheduling

Skills

Required:Engineering problem solvingData analysis and visualizationExcelSQLPython/R
Nice to have:CAD with NX
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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