SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, a16z and Founders Fund.
About the role
The Ultra Precision Machining Specialist will work in direct support of a supervisory professional engineer to develop and implement engineering process improvements and produce quick-turn, single-digit-micron tolerance machined hardware. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience diagnosing dimensional, surface-finish, or process-capability issues in machining or process development
- 5+ years of experience supporting engineers on development, prototype, or process-engineering hardware
- Travel to vendor sites may be required to provide engineering process support under the supervising engineer
- Travel to launch and test sites may be required to support engineering test hardware
- Willingness to perform assigned technical work on 1st or 2nd shift while the development cell stands up. This is not shift supervision
- Must be able to show that the day-to-day work is managed, coordinated, and reviewed by the named supervisory professional engineer, and that it directly supports that engineer’s engineering duties
More about this role
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
The Ultra Precision Machining Specialist will work in direct support of a supervisory professional engineer to develop and implement engineering process improvements and produce quick-turn, single-digit-micron tolerance machined hardware. This role requires a high level of machining aptitude: the judgment to diagnose hard process problems using theoretical knowledge of manufacturing and mechanical engineering, set the technical standard for first-article quality, and apply engineering principles to close process loops when parts miss. The Ultra Precision Machining Specialist does not run the department or supervise a shift. Under the supervising engineer’s direction, the Ultra Precision Machining Specialist accelerates new-product introduction by engineering the process, and supports yield, cycle-time, cost, and floor-space improvements that the engineer owns and releases to production.
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