Senior Investment Casting Tooling Designer for Turbine Blades

Future Ventures; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Tooling Designer for Investment Casting to own the design and development of wax injection molds and ceramic core molds used to produce turbine blades and vanes.

You will deliver high-precision tooling with tight tolerances and complex cooling geometries while meeting aggressive rate and cost targets. You will work with materials, casting, and manufacturing engineers to take tooling from concept through production qualification, impacting casting yield, dimensional

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience designing high-precision injection molds for wax patterns and ceramics.
• Experience enabling mold filling simulations and applying first-principles analysis.
• Strong understanding of multi-stage shrinkage and dimensional/metallurgical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design high-precision wax injection molds and ceramic core injection molds for turbine blades and vanes.
• Interpret mold filling simulations and optimize gating, venting, cooling, and shrinkage compensation.
• Own tooling designs from concept through tryout, qualification, and production release.
• Collaborate with casting engineers and vendors to troubleshoot tooling-related defects and improve yield.

Skills

High-precision mold design

Wax & ceramic tooling knowledge

GD&T tolerance analysis

Tools

Siemens NX

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Tooling Designer for Investment Casting to own the design and development of wax injection molds and ceramic core molds used to produce turbine blades and vanes.

You will deliver high-precision tooling with tight tolerances and complex cooling geometries while meeting aggressive rate and cost targets. You will work with materials, casting, and manufacturing engineers to take tooling from concept through production qualification, impacting casting yield, dimensional