Thermal TPS Technician - Robotic Welding

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Thermal Development Technician for robotic welding to support Starship heat shield manufacturing. You will maintain robotic assets, program and operate equipment, and install electrical and mechanical components across vacuum/thermal chambers and CNC systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with Kuka/Fanuc robots, PLC/CNC familiarity, and the ability to read schematics. Aerospace manufacturing background strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• Experience with various types of hand tools or hand-held power tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide maintenance on vacuum chambers, thermal chambers, CNC machines, and robotic welders.
• Maintain, repair, and operate all robotic assets to ensure proper operation.
• Replace and install electrical components such as switches, relays, contactors, transformers, rectifiers, circuit breakers, fuses, and sensors for temperature/pressure/position.
• Replace and install mechanical components such as bearings, motors, shafts, collars, couplings, pulleys, belts, gears, chains, rollers, pumps, valves, hoses, and O-rings on system equipment.
• Support fabrication of ceramic refractory billets, tiles, coatings and other components for heat shield systems.
• Support basic fabrication, surface preparation, bonding, and oven curing operations.
• Document processes precisely to replicate each processing step.
• Perform hardware inspection and rework as required.

Skills

Robotics maintenance

6-axis robots

Electrical troubleshooting

CNC machines

Hand tools

PLC programming

System documentation

Education

High school diploma

Tools

Kuka robots

Fanuc robots

CNC machines

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Thermal Development Technician for robotic welding to support Starship heat shield manufacturing. You will maintain robotic assets, program and operate equipment, and install electrical and mechanical components across vacuum/thermal chambers and CNC systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with Kuka/Fanuc robots, PLC/CNC familiarity, and the ability to read schematics. Aerospace manufacturing background strongly preferred.