Starship Launch Hardware Controls Engineer

Starlink; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, FL is seeking an Automation & Controls Engineer for Launch Hardware Production (Starship). You will design, commission, and operate automation behind production systems, with responsibilities spanning from initial power-on to sustained high-rate production.

The role focuses on controls for a 24-lane Gigabay, industrial air separation units, and heat shield tile manufacturing, requiring hands-on PLC programming and data acquisition skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical engineering, or computer engineering.
• 6+ months of experience working with data acquisition systems (internship or project experience qualifies).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and commission the controls for a 24-lane Gigabay: production tooling, lifts, fixtures, factory services, and the data layer the floor uses.
• Bring industrial air separation units online and keep them running. Own the instrumentation, interlocks, and control narratives for compression, cold box, distillation, storage, and transfer into the propellant farms.
• Own controls for heat shield tile manufacturing: thermal process equipment, material handling, inspection, and the data that ties process settings to tile quality.
• Stand up new equipment from first power-on through rate production, then own uptime once it is live.
• Develop and upgrade data acquisition and control systems as the factory, the air separation plant, and the tile line change.
• Maintain the operational capability of control-voltage (<60V) electrical systems once activated.
• Turn sensor and PLC data into something operators and responsible engineers can act on the same shift.

Job description

SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, FL is seeking an Automation & Controls Engineer for Launch Hardware Production (Starship). You will design, commission, and operate automation behind production systems, with responsibilities spanning from initial power-on to sustained high-rate production.

The role focuses on controls for a 24-lane Gigabay, industrial air separation units, and heat shield tile manufacturing, requiring hands-on PLC programming and data acquisition skills.