Manufacturing Engineer - Raptor Valves Machining

SpaceX; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, dental

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for Raptor valves machining to influence scaling and solving challenges in machining critical hardware. You will design for manufacturing, implement production processes, and partner with design and quality to ensure robust, cost-effective production.

The role emphasizes process controls, DFM updates, and delivering parts on time while driving improvements toward a SPC-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or physics.
• 1+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment (student project team and internship experience qualifies).
• Strong experience with machining concepts, problems and producing hardware.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, problem-solving environment.
• Experience in design or product development engineering role.
• Master's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or aerospace engineering.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, and implement machining processes to help solve for engine cost, quality, and production rate - specifically focused on valve, turbopump, thrust chamber or injector hardware.
• Work between manufacturing and design engineers, machinists, technicians, and quality to ensure processes are robust and any production problems are quickly solved.
• Partner with design to identify and implement design for manufacturing (DFM) updates at both the piece part and system level, own change management into production.
• Aggressively implement machining process controls that allow parts to run 'lights out'. Leverage latest technologies and programming strategies to reduce in-cycle intervention.
• Be responsible for part or part family quality; understand quality landscape, and drive projects to ensure dimensions meet part requirements with low overhead.
• Drive machining processes toward statistically controlled (SPC) environment. Develop and implement tools needed to show capability.
• Oversee full circle machining process from fixture design and manufacturing, CAM programming and program refinement, cutting tool selection, and buyoff/inspection methodologies.
• Constantly challenge each process, part, operation to create the most manufacturable and reliable engine hardware possible.
• Work with production to ensure the hardware you are responsible for is delivered on time or ahead of schedule.
• Oversee introduction and implementation of new products and products revisions, frequently multiple at a given time.

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for Raptor valves machining to influence scaling and solving challenges in machining critical hardware. You will design for manufacturing, implement production processes, and partner with design and quality to ensure robust, cost-effective production.

The role emphasizes process controls, DFM updates, and delivering parts on time while driving improvements toward a SPC-driven environment.