Manufacturing Engineer, Solar (Starlink)

We are looking for talented, creative, and driven manufacturing engineers to drive manufacturing tools and processes, from initial concept development to full scale production, and will interact regularly with senior leadership during critical design phases. You will own the relationship between the engineering development and production teams.

The success of Starlink depends on the quality, reliability, cost, manufacturability, throughput, security, and user experience of the products that you deliver.

- Design and implement electro-mechanical assembly and test processes

- Collaborate with the mechanical design team to incorporate design for manufacturability

- Lead prototype builds ensuring incremental milestones for the production development are met

- Ensure manufacturing systems are capable of hitting high volume rate, cost and quality targets

- Lead facilities development, floor layout, headcount requirements and material flow definition

- Identify tooling and hardware requirements, design and implement into production processes

- Identify automation opportunities and establish requirements as well as evaluating return on investment for each

- Work with in-house resources or vendors as necessary to develop these solutions and implement on production line

- 1+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment via professional work experience, project/research-based student experience, or a combination of both

- Demonstrated experience working in a highly adaptive and iterative environment

- Proven excellence in a high volume commercial or automotive manufacturing environment

- Experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing and scaling to high volume as part of a cross-functional team

- Demonstrated experience implementing automation into production processes

- Experience integrating electromechanical or lamination assemblies with both manual and automated processes

- Ability to develop and maintain high performing suppliers and contract manufacturers

- Experience working with and defining requirements for ERP, MRP and MES systems

- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks.

You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law. Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday.