Materials Supplier Development Engineer

Future Ventures; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer (Materials Engineering) to drive manufacturing and quality for rocket components and assemblies. You will own supplier selection, process ramp‑to‑rate, and DFM reviews to ensure manufacturability from early stages.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in propulsion-related fabrication, supplier QA, and PPAP/APQP processes, with a focus on driving continuous improvement and risk mitigation across the supply chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of experience with manufacturing and/or inspection of mechanical products in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical point of contact for assigned parts and assemblies of the rocket, solving emergent challenges at suppliers, and mitigating risk to the manifest by addressing high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges.
• Own the new product introduction of new assemblies on the rocket, including determining the ideal manufacturing method, identifying suppliers, and developing a reliable process for ramping to rate.
• Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure parts are manufacturable at early stages, preferably prior to sourcing.
• Work with procurement to find exceptional suppliers and vet them appropriately for quality and ability to meet our aggressive takt times.
• Create and develop specifications as needed to flow down quality and manufacturing requirements to the supply base.
• Scope out new forming, cutting, and inspection technologies and suppliers that may be employed to improve rate/quality/efficiency.
• Review issues on assigned parts and solve to the root cause, implementing changes at the supplier, at SpaceX or both, as appropriate, drive further actions to closure, and re-source to new suppliers where appropriate.
• Create and disposition issue tickets where needed, working with engineering counterparts to implement, but not limited to, required re-work, repair or use as-is disposition.
• Become thoroughly familiar with your assigned parts and the processes that make up the overall assembly and become the primary point of contact for supply chain related defects on your parts.
• Demonstrate innovation, technical excellence, attention to detail, self-direction and courage to push the technical envelope which is conventionally held in the industry.
• Lead containment activities on assigned parts, working with cross-functional counterparts to agree on scope, path forward and ultimate resolution

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Quality tools

Supplier management

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

MS Excel

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

ISO 9000/TS/AS9100

MRP/ERP systems

PPAP

GD&T

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer (Materials Engineering) to drive manufacturing and quality for rocket components and assemblies. You will own supplier selection, process ramp‑to‑rate, and DFM reviews to ensure manufacturability from early stages.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in propulsion-related fabrication, supplier QA, and PPAP/APQP processes, with a focus on driving continuous improvement and risk mitigation across the supply chain.