Starship Build Reliability Engineer: Lead Ground-Up Manufacturing

SpaceX; Westminster (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid parental leave

3 weeks of paid vacation + 10+ paidhol

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Build Reliability Engineer (Starship) to join an interdisciplinary team developing global manufacturing procedures and driving continuous production improvement. You will define inspection requirements, build tooling, and work with design to improve DFM while enforcing consistency across centers.

The role requires a Bachelor's in an engineering field and 1+ years in manufacturing or design, with hands-on capabilities and strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering or physics field.
• 1+ years in manufacturing, quality, and/or design engineering role (student project team or internship experience qualifies).
• Ability to work extended hours, weekends, and offsite as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop manufacturing, integration, assembly, welding, NDE, cleanliness, and checkouts processes from the ground up, then enforce consistency across different work centers.
• Design and implement tooling for work access, mechanical/avionics/propulsion testing, build fixturing, lifting & rigging, and fluids.
• Define and document inspection requirements and procedures.
• Create training for production and inspection processes.
• Author planning, test plans, and training to execute processes and collect data, ensuring efficient and stable quality at increasing production volumes.
• Contain non-conforming hardware in collaboration with quality, production, and design groups to ensure systemic issues are corrected, and risk is managed for the fleet.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Collaboration

Data visualization

Manufacturing experience

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or physics

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

CATIA

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Build Reliability Engineer (Starship) to join an interdisciplinary team developing global manufacturing procedures and driving continuous production improvement. You will define inspection requirements, build tooling, and work with design to improve DFM while enforcing consistency across centers.

The role requires a Bachelor's in an engineering field and 1+ years in manufacturing or design, with hands-on capabilities and strong collaboration across teams.