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Manufacturing Engineer, Inspection (Starship Machining)

SpaceX· Starship Components Machining
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $160kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Engineering role focusing on inspection reliability and manufacturability improvements for Starship machining, balancing quality, cycle time, and production rates across SpaceX machine shops.

Responsibilities

  • Determine inspection plans for a wide range of components machined at SpaceX or suppliers, with the goal of ensuring piece part quality and function while optimizing for cycle time, machine utilization, and inspection repeatability/reliability
  • Drive improvements to existing inspection processes, including reducing CMM inspection times through optimized programming, fixturing, and workflow streamlining
  • Increase inspection throughput and improve non-conformance management by driving projects such as standardizing rework guides, eliminating redundant checks, and optimizing frequency of inspections
  • Maintain tight feedback loops with the design and manufacturing teams to improve design for manufacturability and design for inspectability (e.g., refining GD&T datum structures and callouts for stable, repeatable measurements)
  • Investigate and implement novel inspection equipment and technologies that improve the factory’s capabilities and improve inspection time, accuracy, and repeatability
  • Collaborate with other SpaceX machine shops and quality facilities to share inspection capabilities, develop resources, and address capacity, scheduling, and process alignment issues as necessary
  • Contain non-conforming products created by the shop and work to implement short-term and long-term corrective actions after completing thorough root cause investigations

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
  • 1+ years of machine shop, manufacturing, quality, and/or inspection experience (student project team or internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Inspection planningGD&T
Nice to have:CMM programmingMetrology systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
  • stock or long-term cash incentives and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (discounted stock purchase)
  • various other discounts and perks
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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