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Components Build and Test Engineer – Falcon
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | West Athens, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or physics
- 1+ years of experience manufacturing, building, testing, or troubleshooting hardware via professional work experience and/or project/research-based student experience
Responsibilities
- Own the production, assembly and testing of propulsion, environmental and thermal control system components for our Falcon programs
- Create assembly and test work instructions, as well as design fixtures and tooling to enable high rate production
- Design, manufacture and maintain automated high pressure test equipment
- Question existing requirements and lead creative changes to production process and hardware
- Collaborate and work closely with design engineers, build and test technicians, internal machine shops and external vendors to make parts that are designed for manufacturability
- Resolve and analyze manufacturing and test discrepancies, while interfacing with the quality team (resolving issues for design, fabrication, and assembly)
- Support component level testing such as proof and leak, fluid flow and functional checkouts
Preferred Qualifications
- 1+ years of research or professional experience in technical fields
- Experience with developing production processes, factory optimization, or manufacturing and machining methods
- Experience with instrumentation, data acquisition, and data review
- Hands-on experience trouble-shooting, building and testing hardware
- Understanding of fundamental principals in fluid systems and solid mechanics
