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STARLINK MANUFACTURING ENGINEER (PCBA TEST)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive the transition of engineering projects from development to volume production
• Drive continuous improvements in production methods, standards, tooling, equipment, layout, procedures, product designs and employee efficiency for performance, yield and cost
• Drive changes to production process and equipment as a result of manufacturing problems, parts obsolescence and requirement changes
• Develop, identify and stand up equipment required equipment for PCBA testing
• Ensure test procedures, process and equipment has sufficient test coverage to eliminate escapes
• Automate testing strategies in a high product mix PCBA build environment
• Prepare and maintain documentation required to ensure efficient production of manufacturing and integration
• PCBA defect root cause analysis and defect countermeasure implementation

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering related field
• 2 years of manufacturing product testing experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated experience with PCBA testing such as: manual probes, hipot, thermal testing, HALT/HASS, and TVAC testing
• Demonstrated ability to program in languages relevant to test machines such as: Beckhoff PLC, C#, and MSSQL
• Demonstrated experience designing and manufacturing test harnesses for PCBAs
• Demonstrated experience developing PFMEAs and controlling process variables in a production setting
• Demonstrated experience reading complex electrical schematics including power and/or RF circuits
• Demonstrated experience determining root cause of PCBA failures reworks
• Demonstrated ability to perform PCBA reworks, including BGA, and train others
• Demonstrated ability to program in applicable languages such as C++ and Python
• Demonstrated experience with PCBA manufacturing, especially SMT processes such as part placement, reflow, selective solder, and x-ray
• Ability to perform test data analysis to determine pass/fail and in-family as well as root cause anomalies

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at (310) 363-6000.