Starship Components Ops: Manufacturing Engineer

SpaceX; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for Starship Components Operations. This role focuses on designing factory layouts, optimizing material flow, and overseeing the production of regulators, butterfly valves, and actuators on the Starship platform.

You will lead layout design, vendor negotiations, process walks, and rapid project execution while collaborating across teams to improve delivery, capacity, and cost efficiency on the factory floor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of mechanical design/hands-on manufacturing experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and own factory and production area layouts following clear visual indicators and linear flow.
• Conduct job walks with vendors, negotiate prices and hold vendors to schedule.
• Host process walks of production lines and identify steps to delete or simplify; kick off changes.
• Execute on complex projects in minimum time and expense to the business.
• Get hands-on, lead by example to get projects completed rapidly.
• Develop system and process improvements between production teams.
• Develop tools to analyze delivery, capacity, cost problems for production to guide decisions.

Skills

Mechanical design

Project management

Process improvement

Excel

SQL

Python

Education

Bachelors in engineering

Tools

MRP/ERP systems

Excel

Python

SQL

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for Starship Components Operations. This role focuses on designing factory layouts, optimizing material flow, and overseeing the production of regulators, butterfly valves, and actuators on the Starship platform.

You will lead layout design, vendor negotiations, process walks, and rapid project execution while collaborating across teams to improve delivery, capacity, and cost efficiency on the factory floor.