Senior Supplier Development Engineer — Space Launch (On-Site)

Starlink; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, FL seeks a Sr. Supplier Development Engineer to lead manufacturing and quality collaboration with strategic suppliers for Starship, Dragon, and Falcon programs. You will drive NPIs, PPAP, DFMs, and supplier qualification to ensure on-time, high-quality parts for flight and ground support.

You will own design-for-manufacturing reviews, source exceptional suppliers, and push continuous improvement across the supply chain while traveling up to 60-85% as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or STEM discipline.
• 5+ years of experience with manufacturing and/or inspection of mechanical products in a production environment.
• Master’s degree in engineering (preferred).
• Experience with GD&T and interpreting engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes and PPAP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical point of contact for assigned parts or systems within flight, non-flight, and launch site and recovery infrastructure, solving emergent challenges at suppliers and mitigating risk to the manifest by addressing high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges
• Lead and coordinate containment activities to mitigate risk to build and launch schedules, and drive ongoing reliability improvements
• Intervene and drive resolution at the supplier for critical path components to ensure zero disruption to the build schedule
• Review issues on assigned parts and solve to the root cause, implementing changes at the supplier, at SpaceX, or both, 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 familiar with your assigned parts, systems, and the processes that make up the overall assembly, and be the primary point of contact for supply chain-related defects
• Work with procurement to find exceptional suppliers and vet them for quality and takt times
• Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure parts are manufacturable at early stages
• Own the new product introduction (NPI) process at a supplier for new parts, drawing changes, or when re-sourcing existing parts to a new supplier
• Drive the production part approval process (PPAP) program to ensure stable supply, reduce inspection oversight, and improve delivery time
• Demonstrate innovation, technical excellence, attention to detail, self-direction, and courage to push the technical envelope
• Drive for results and customer satisfaction by collaborating with teams, leading projects, and continuously driving improvement in the supply base

Skills

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Process optimization

Quality tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

MS Office

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Job description

SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, FL seeks a Sr. Supplier Development Engineer to lead manufacturing and quality collaboration with strategic suppliers for Starship, Dragon, and Falcon programs. You will drive NPIs, PPAP, DFMs, and supplier qualification to ensure on-time, high-quality parts for flight and ground support.

You will own design-for-manufacturing reviews, source exceptional suppliers, and push continuous improvement across the supply chain while traveling up to 60-85% as needed.