SpaceX Test Specialist for Factory Automation on Starlink responsible for designing and building wire harnesses, PCBAs, test racks, and robotics. Support production and qualification tests and manage outsourced equipment builds.
Responsibilities
Design and build wire harnesses, PCBAs, test racks, robotics, and environmental simulation equipment
Support production, engineering, and qualification tests including equipment bring-up and configuration, dry runs, and in situ troubleshooting.
Manage first article builds, address shortages and errors, and feedback finding into documentation
Manage supply chain and vendors for outsourced equipment builds
Develop and manage maintenance plans for production equipment
Maintain safe, clean, stocked, and orderly work area
Qualification
Associate degreeElectromechanical design and debug
Required
High school diploma or equivalency certificate
3+ years of hands on experience with mechanical/structural/fluid/electrical systems
2+ years of experience performing electronic testing and inspection using portable measuring devices
Preferred
Associate degree
2+ years of experience working in a production or engineering function
Hands-on experience fabricating harnesses, electro-mechanical assemblies, printed circuit board assemblies, and test stations
Electromechanical design and debug, including PCBAs, wire harnesses, electronics enclosures, line automation, and server racks
Excellent attention to detail and an insistence on permanently correcting errors
Electromechanical build processes including iron & hot-air soldering; wire crimping and stripping; machine and hand drilling, shaping, cutting, and joining; 3D plastic printing
Electrical debug tools including multimeter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer
Experience working in a variety of software environments, applications, and languages including Linux, Windows, Microsoft Office, git, SVN, JIRA, Altium, Mentor PCB, NX, Bash, and Python