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SpaceXPosted Sep 8, 2026
Controls Technician
Starbase, TXfull timeOn SitemidH1B: no
SpaceX Controls Technician at SpaceX responsible for building and maintaining data and control systems including instrumentation and sensors. Perform calibration, troubleshooting, and repair of electrical and electronic systems.
Responsibilities
- Perform complex technical assignments involving instrumentation and data acquisition/processing systems
- Maintain, calibrate, configure, monitor, test, troubleshoot, install, and repair instrumentation, process controls, data acquisition systems, and electrical systems
- Investigate, diagnose, correct, and document instrumentation or system malfunctions
- Analyze results of calibrations and processed data, and assist in the interpretation of test data
- Adjust, repair, or replace faulty components of test setups and equipment
- Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electrical and electronic units, assemblies, components, parts, equipment, and systems
- Configure the data acquisition hardware
- Perform wire terminations to a variety of instruments and verify sensor health: pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, limits, and flow meters
- Install connectors, connector pins, terminals, and lugs
Qualification
Associate degree in instrumentationWorking knowledge of transducers
Required
- Associate degree in instrumentation, control technology, electrical systems, or other electrical field (3+ years of professional experience working with controls or electrical systems will be considered in lieu of a degree)
- 2+ years of experience working with instrumentation such as pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, flow meters, multimeters, or oscilloscopes
Preferred
- Experience working with any of the following instrumentation: resistance temperature devices (RTDs), silicon diode temperature devices, strain gauges, load cells, displacement transducers, pressure transducers, thermocouple, and flow meters (turbine, coriolis, and ultrasonic)
- Basic knowledge of Wheatstone bridge theory, ability to apply Ohm's law, and an understanding of direct current (DC) electronics
Company
SpaceX
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