Sr. Materials Engineer, Vehicle Refurbishment
SpaceX· Materials Engineering - Starship/Raptor
Cape Canaveral, FLfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Multidisciplinary materials engineering role focused on vehicle reusability from production through flight, maintenance, and refurbishment, covering polymers, adhesives, coatings, corrosion, composites, metals processing, and heat treating to enable reliable space vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy materials and process direction for vehicle design, manufacturing, maintenance, and refurbishment
- Increase reliability of manufacturing, maintenance, and reuse processes through material and process selection, analysis, development, and test
- Develop physical, mechanical, and thermal properties for materials
- Improve our special processes and materials through characterization and development
- Work directly with component design build and test engineering, design reliability, and production teams daily
- Perform root cause investigations using fractography, metallography, and testing
- Provide technical reviews and advising for design efforts specifically related to drawings, specifications, and material requirements
- Collaborate with other engineers, subject matter experts, and technicians to solve complex material and processing challenges on our current and next generation vehicles
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in materials engineering or other engineering discipline with emphasis on materials
- 5+ years of professional work experience in a materials engineering related role
- Experience and expertise with multiple of the following manufacturing methods: tribological coatings (conversion, inorganic, dry-film lubricants), sheet/plate metal processing, casting, forging, brazing, welding, and heat treating
Skills
Required:Materials engineeringMetallography and fractography
Nice to have:Mechanical testing (tensile, wear, fatigue)Non-destructive testingFTIR/SEM/metallography analysis
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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