Product Development Engineer (Starlink)

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategic execution of hardware programs, ensuring alignment with overall project goals, reliability objectives, and mass-production requirements
• Create and manage detailed project schedules, drive day-to-day activities to meet overall project objectives, and perform critical path management to ensure key decision milestones are met across NPI, qualification, and production ramp phases
• Lead multi-functional communication between internal project teams and external vendors/contract manufacturers, facilitating alignment while holding teams accountable
• Provide timely issue resolution, proactively identify risks, and drive technical and supply-chain issues to closure by bringing together key partners for decision making
• Facilitate clear and consistent communication and alignment between internal teams (Product Design, Engineering, Reliability, Manufacturing, and Operations) and external contract manufacturers/OEM partners
• Provide strong leadership and support during prototype, engineering validation, and production builds, while ensuring timely delivery of components, proactive problem-solving, and definition of robust validation and reliability test plans
• Oversee the release process for parts, assemblies, and enclosures, ensuring timely and accurate releases while holding teams accountable for meeting release deadlines
• Provide clear project status and risk assessments to executive management, filtering and distilling relevant information for the right audience

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 3+ years in a quality, reliability, supply chain, or engineering role

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in high-volume consumer electronics hardware programs
• Experience in new product / project management, preferably in hardware development with contract manufacturers
• Excellent communication, organizational and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-functional communication between project teams and external vendors
• Flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
• Demonstrated creativity and critical thinking capabilities
• Strong experience in New Product Introduction (NPI), scaling hardware into mass production, and managing aggressive schedules
• Detail knowledge of product development processes, manufacturing, and supply chain operations
• Background in engineering program management, supply chain quality, or contract manufacturer management
• Familiarity with product release systems, configuration management, and risk management tools

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to supplier and manufacturing sites as needed
• Ability to work effectively across multiple time zones with global contract manufacturers and internal stakeholders
• Must be able to independently prioritize and manage multiple competing projects in a dynamic environment
• Position is based in Bastrop, TX and requires being onsite - remote work not considered

ITAR REQUIREMENTS

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Company Information

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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