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Supplier Development Engineer, Silicon & Packaging (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink - Supply Chain Engineering
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Redmond, WA$100k - $135k_full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Supplier Development Engineer focusing on silicon & packaging for Starlink satellites, responsible for supplier qualification, quality, cost, and production readiness across IC custom silicon, packaging, and related substrate/fabrication processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own continuity of supply and improve quality, cost, delivery, and capacity metrics for Integrated Circuit (IC) Custom Silicon & Packaging hardware used in Starlink Satellites
  • Collaborate with design, R&D, commercial supply chain, hardware reliability, materials, and manufacturing engineers to gain in-depth knowledge of piece part, assembly, metrology, and/or sub-system design intent
  • Review and approve package substrate fabrication technology, assembly processes, and quality control plans
  • Support the procurement team to strategically source parts matched with supplier competencies by reviewing and assessing supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems
  • Identify, audit, and onboard new suppliers
  • Create, define, and implement supplier technical and quality requirements based on program requirements and expectations for NPI and production phases
  • Lead resolution of supplier quality issues through root cause analysis, while liaising between purchasing, engineering, production, and suppliers
  • Define product technical requirements, and ensure supplier compliance with these requirements
  • Implement and monitor the production part approval process (PPAP) with selected suppliers to enable rate production
  • Ensure qualification and reliability activities at suppliers are in line with requirements
  • Analyze supplier quality and delivery metrics to identify trends and pinpoint systemic performance gaps and root causes to drive supplier improvement plans
  • Provide feedback to suppliers on manufacturing methods to reduce costs, cycle times, and increase yields
  • Set standards for DPPM, Failure-In-Time (FIT), and Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) with SpaceX and supplier engineering
  • Identify and drive product & process improvements to lower part cost, reduce supply risk, eliminate defects, and improve cycle time
  • Manage mission-critical supply chain through strong supplier relationships and communication
  • Demonstrate ownership, proactivity, technical excellence, creativity, and self-direction
  • Function as liaison between purchasing, engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to resolve supplier quality issues and provide technical support
  • Collaborate with teams, lead projects, and drive continuous improvement in the supply base
  • Act as internal owner of supplier’s SPC, yield improvement activities, new tool/process qualification, and performance in quality, efficiency, and cost

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of experience with electronic packaged part manufacturing (e.g., Silicon NPI, Silicon Fabrication, Wafer Level Packaging, IC packaging, Package Substrates)
  • 3+ years in one of: supply chain engineering, supplier development/quality, process engineering, manufacturing, design engineering

Skills

Required:Supply chain engineeringStatistical methods / SPCRoot cause analysis
Nice to have:PPAP / APQP / RCCA / DOE / Six Sigma / lean

Benefits

  • Company stock or long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • Discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • disability, life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick time (Washington state)
  • Shuttle service from select Seattle locations to SpaceX Redmond office
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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