Materials & Metals Supplier Dev Engineer - Travel & Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer in Materials & Metals to own supplier materials, processes, and finishes for Starship. You’ll drive raw-material development, tackle high-impact issues, and coordinate with engineering and procurement to ensure quality and manufacturability across changing designs.

Responsibilities include zero-defect containment, root-cause analysis, and drawing changes to reduce lead times and costs. Travel up to 40-50% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering, metallurgy, or metallurgical engineering.
• 1+ years of experience with R&D, manufacturing, or processing engineering role.
• Experience with supplier quality processes (PPAP, APQP, FAIR, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical contact for materials commodities and processes, including raw material, welding, heat treatment, and finishing/coating.
• Develop raw-material commodities and related products; select manufacturing methods, identify suppliers, and build scalable processes.
• Solve emergent supplier issues that threaten the manifest—materials, processing, manufacturing, and quality problems.
• Lead containment on material and process escapes; scope risk, align with engineering and supply chain, and drive closure.
• Root-cause material and processing issues; implement fixes at supplier, at the company, or both.
• Create and dispositions issue tickets with engineering counterparts (rework, repair, or use-as-is).
• Drive requirement and drawing changes that cut defect risk, improve manufacturability, and reduce lead time and cost.
• Partner with procurement to find capable suppliers and assess them for quality and takt.
• Review supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems; push improvements and own follow-through.
• Be the supply-chain owner for materials-and-process-related defects on your commodities.

Skills

Materials science

Metallurgy knowledge

Supplier communication

Problem solving

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in materials science/metalurgy

Tools

PPAP

APQP

FAIR

ISO 9000/AS9100

Minitab

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer in Materials & Metals to own supplier materials, processes, and finishes for Starship. You’ll drive raw-material development, tackle high-impact issues, and coordinate with engineering and procurement to ensure quality and manufacturability across changing designs.

Responsibilities include zero-defect containment, root-cause analysis, and drawing changes to reduce lead times and costs. Travel up to 40-50% may be required.