Senior Supplier Development Engineer - Global Hardware

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Supplier Development Engineer for Starlink to own hardware from supplier selection through high-volume production. You will drive process decisions, select and mature suppliers, and own yield, quality, and field performance.

You will work across silicon, packaging, PCB, and mechanical areas, sometimes on new factories or lines. Expect frequent factory floor presence and international travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in supplier development, manufacturing or process engineering, equipment engineering, quality engineering, or reliability engineering for hardware.
• Experience with driving a supplier, design, or process from initial conception to production.
• Experience owning the outcomes related to final yield, quality, and performance.
• Experience in at least one of the following: Semiconductor or packaging; PCB fabrication or assembly; Mechanical fabrication; Electromechanical assembly.

Responsibilities

• Own hardware from selection to scale for Starlink consumer, gateway, satellite, or datacenter products. Technology choice, supplier choice, process choice, equipment, yield, cost, schedule, and field performance sit with you.
• Select suppliers who can build at the quality and rate the program needs, and develop them until the process is capable. Change the supplier when the technical path is not there.
• Choose the manufacturing process and the equipment. Define the process window, the control plan, and the evidence of capability before rate, not after the line is already late.
• Bring up new designs, new factories, and new processes. Be on the floor, debug the tool, and close the yield and rate gap yourself.
• Do the reliability and quality work the hardware needs: failure analysis, test and screen strategy, process FMEA, corrective action, and a field-to-factory loop that changes the product.
• Carry the technical decision with design, test, supply chain, and the supplier. Make the call and live with the field result.
• Scale what is proven. Stop what will not scale.
• Own escapes into customer deployments, gateway sites, orbit, and datacenter operation.

Skills

Supplier development

Manufacturing

Process engineering

Quality engineering

Reliability engineering

Hardware engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Supplier Development Engineer for Starlink to own hardware from supplier selection through high-volume production. You will drive process decisions, select and mature suppliers, and own yield, quality, and field performance.

You will work across silicon, packaging, PCB, and mechanical areas, sometimes on new factories or lines. Expect frequent factory floor presence and international travel.