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Lead Engineer, Development Operations (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Engineering Bastrop - Dev Ops
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Hybrid (Bastrop, TX)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Lead Engineer responsible for the Development Operations engineering stack in Bastrop, owning design for manufacturability, fixtures and tooling, and the engineers who run it to ensure programs hit schedule without hero work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Development Operations engineering team (Build Engineers and design/DFM ICs): hire, coach, set goals, and raise the bar on quality, throughput, and schedule
  • Own design for manufacturability from concept through fab: original CAD, GD&T, design reviews, and design changes that reduce cost, complexity, and cycle time
  • Own fixtures, tooling, workholding, and mechanical catalog items (cells, conveyors, buffers, stands) from raw material through handoff to the customer program
  • Act as technical decision maker for the shop engineering stack — what we make, how we make it, and when we push a design back to the RE
  • Partner with Development Supervisors on intake, queue, and expedite
  • Partner with CNC programmers, machinists, welders, ACE specialists, and inventory
  • Drive NCR, root cause, and corrective action on non-conforming product (tooling, cells, fixtures, piece parts)
  • Create and maintain build documentation: procedures, MBOMs, integration instructions, and planning that technicians and vendors can execute
  • Interface with supply chain and vendors so piece parts and sub-assemblies hit rate
  • Present look-ahead with a recommendation (options, capacity, risk)
  • Support Development Test with fixtures and fab

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or other engineering discipline
  • 2+ year leading a product development, manufacturing engineering, or project team
  • 3+ years of hands-on design, analysis, build, and/or manufacturing of mechanical or electromechanical hardware

Skills

Required:CAD (NX, SolidWorks, or equivalent)
Nice to have:Design for manufacturability (DFM/DFA)GD&TFixtures, tooling, weldments, modular automation / material-handling equipmentCNC / machining / weld/fab processesFEA / first-principles structures calcsNX and Teamcenter (PLM)DFMEA / PFMEAVendor management / NCR / cross-functional schedulingMentoring

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer; as per SpaceX policies
  • Accommodation available; contact EEOCompliance@spacex.com for more info
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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