SpaceX Sr. Automation & Controls Engineer responsible for designing and integrating automated cells and safety logic systems to increase Starship production and reliability. Develop PLC code and ensure factory safety compliance.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and manage automation projects including initial factory ideation, machine commissioning, proof of rate capability, and eventual hand-off to operational teams
Architect, write, and debug PLC code with an emphasis on generating code that is organized, structured, documented, maintainable, and reusable for high-volume manufacturing applications
Keep our factory safe and reliable by implementing ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA compliant systems for robots, gantries, conveyors, and other manufacturing equipment
Generate aesthetically simple HMI screens to make complex machines easy to understand, operate, and troubleshoot
Design electrical systems compliant to NEC, NFPA, and UL508A regulations
Create schedules/budgets and motivate the team to achieve them
Qualification
Bachelor's degree in an engineeringAbility to engineer creativeExperience withMachine design with focus on speed
Required
Bachelor's degree in an engineering, physics, computer science, or other engineering discipline
1+ years of total experience in one or a combination of the following:
Professional or internship experience in industrial or factory automation design and implementation
Involvement with a project team designing and building electro-mechanical/robotic/automated systems or products beyond classroom assignments
Preferred
Experience working in a quick and iterative design and manufacturing role
Ability to solve complex problems with simple solutions at both the design and implementation stages
Experience communicating both written/verbally, planning, and driving directional recommendations cross-functionally
Ability to engineer creative, new approaches to problems while adhering to ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA safety requirements to keep a factory safe
Experience with, and willingness to learn, at least one of the specific disciplines listed below:
Machine design with focus on speed, reliability, maintainability, and safety
Motion system sizing and implementation (gantries, robotics, conveyance, motors, actuators, pneumatics/hydraulics, sensor selection/integration, etc.)
Fundamental structures hand calculations and ability to design for strength and stiffness
