The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Determine inspection plans for a wide range of components machined at SpaceX: or suppliers, with the goal of ensuring piece part quality and function while optimizing for cycle time, machine utilization, and inspection repeatability/reliability
Drive improvements to existing inspection processes, including reducing CMM: inspection times through optimized programming, fixturing, and workflow streamlining
Increase inspection throughput and improve non-conformance management by: driving projects such as standardizing rework guides, eliminating redundant checks, and optimizing frequency of inspections
Maintain tight feedback loops with the design and manufacturing teams to: improve design for manufacturability and design for inspectability (e.g., refining GD&T datum structures and callouts for stable, repeatable measurements)
Investigate and implement novel inspection equipment and technologies that: improve the factory’s capabilities and improve inspection time, accuracy, and repeatability
Collaborate with other SpaceX machine shops and quality facilities to share: inspection capabilities, develop resources, and address capacity, scheduling, and process alignment issues as necessary
What they're looking for
- Contain non-conforming products created by the shop and work to implement: short-term and long-term corrective actions after completing thorough root cause investigations
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
- + years of machine shop, manufacturing, quality, and/or inspection experience: (student project team or internship experience qualifies)
- Experienced with a variety of precision conventional (e.g. hand tools) and: advanced (e.g. CMMs, laser scanning, 3D imaging, photogrammetry) metrology systems
