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Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Mesh Optical (Starmind)

SpaceX
Bastrop, USA
Lead · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 5 days ago

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Own manufacturing engineering strategy and production execution across the factory, including line scaling, capacity planning, and production readiness for new products
  • Design and scale automated production cells for precision electro-mechanical and optical assemblies, integrating robotics, alignment systems, inspection, and test automation
  • Own product-to-manufacturing handoff in partnership with mechanical, process, and optical engineering teams, driving design-for-manufacturability and design-for-assembly feedback into product development
  • Define and evolve production workflows, material flow, line layout, and inventory and traceability systems to support increasing volume and product complexity
  • Lead hardware-side MES integration and factory data system development, ensuring production data supports real-time decision-making, traceability, and continuous improvement
  • Own factory performance metrics—yield, scrap, throughput, uptime, cycle time, and reliability—and drive systematic improvement against targets
  • Build, lead, and develop the manufacturing engineering organization, including production engineering and production leadership roles, scaling the team in step with factory growth
  • Partner with supply chain and procurement to qualify incoming materials and components and ensure supplier quality supports production yield targets
  • Establish and maintain manufacturing process documentation, control plans, and qualification procedures

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience working with automated integration lines, high volume electronics manufacturing or similar
  • 1+ years of experience leading a team of engineers, either as a project leader or as a leader in professional environment with direct reports
  • Available to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed
  • Willingness to travel as needed
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
  • SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
  • Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [email protected].

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Experience with micron-scale assembly, optical alignment, or die/chip-level packaging processes
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, and organizational development of engineering team
  • Experience implementing or evolving MES and production data systems
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to factory performance
  • Demonstrated ownership of yield and ramp performance in complex hardware manufacturing environments
  • Proven experience scaling automated production lines beyond pilot and NPI into sustained high-volume manufacturing
  • Background in semiconductor, photonic, advanced packaging, or precision electro-optical manufacturing
  • Experience scaling manufacturing operations in high-growth hardware companies, including standing up new lines or new factories
  • Experience with factory automation architectures, including integration of robotic handling, machine vision, and in-line metrology
  • Familiarity with statistical process control, process capability analysis, and reliability qualification methodologies
  • Experience managing relationships with equipment vendors and integrators for custom or semi-custom production tooling
  • Experience with cleanroom or controlled-environment manufacturing operations

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

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