Lead Engineer, Development Ops — Hardware & Fixtures

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

N/A

Job summary

SpaceX Bastrop seeks a Lead Engineer to own the Development Operations stack, from concept through fabrication. You will design for manufacturability, GD&T, fixtures, and tooling, while mentoring the team and ensuring on-time delivery of complex hardware programs.

You will coordinate with supervisors and technicians, manage build documentation, and push for process improvements that reduce cost and cycle time. Weekend/hours may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 2+ years 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.

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

Skills

Leadership

Mechanical hardware

CAD

Full-cycle ownership

DFM/DFMA

GD&T

Fixtures/tooling

CNC/weld/fab

FEA

NX/PLM

DFMEA/PFMEA

Vendor/NCR

Mentoring

High-mix

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or other engineering discipline

Job description

SpaceX Bastrop seeks a Lead Engineer to own the Development Operations stack, from concept through fabrication. You will design for manufacturability, GD&T, fixtures, and tooling, while mentoring the team and ensuring on-time delivery of complex hardware programs.

You will coordinate with supervisors and technicians, manage build documentation, and push for process improvements that reduce cost and cycle time. Weekend/hours may be required.