Senior Welding Engineer

2 weeks ago


Hawthorne, California, United States SpaceX Full time
Job Title: Sr. Welding Engineer

SpaceX is seeking a highly skilled Sr. Welding Engineer to join our team in developing and optimizing welding processes for our launch vehicles, spacecraft, and satellites. As a key member of our manufacturing and development team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and optimize welding processes and parameters for multiple welding processes, including electron beam welding, laser beam welding, gas tungsten arc welding, orbital tube welding, resistance welding, gas metal arc welding, and plasma arc welding.
  • Support production operations on full-scale welded assemblies, providing direction to manufacturing engineers and welders on correct techniques in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Support design, manufacturing, and materials engineering with root cause analysis.
  • Work closely with design, tooling, automation, and development engineers to improve welded designs for manufacturing.
  • Set up welding qualification test campaigns and interpret mechanical testing and NDE results.
  • Work closely with NDE personnel to interpret weld quality on development and flight hardware, as well as develop and implement innovative state-of-the-art NDE techniques.
  • Develop and implement improved process control where possible using test and NDE results as a feedback loop.
  • Set up automated welding solutions to drive process consistency.
  • Scope out new welding technologies to improve rate, quality, and efficiency.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience with hands-on fabrication, manufacturing, or testing experience of welded assemblies.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
  • Master's degree in welding engineering or a related technical program.
  • Hands-on welding experience of stainless steel, nickel-based, titanium, copper, and aluminum alloys.
  • Experience with brazing, joining, and metallographic interpretation.
  • Fundamental understanding of welding processes, including electron beam, laser beam, plasma arc, resistance, friction-stir, gas tungsten arc, and gas metal arc.
  • Robot programming experience for automated welding solutions.
  • Tooling design experience for welded assemblies to reduce part distortion and improve part consistency.
  • Understanding of weld strength testing methodologies, standards, and data acquisition systems used to make informed welding decisions.
  • Experience with root cause analysis and corrective actions, including optical and SEM fractography/metallography, hardness, chemical analysis, and mechanical testing.
  • Self-motivated engineer with keen attention to detail.
  • Strong ability to multi-task and communicate status and results with a broad spectrum of internal and external departments.
Additional Requirements:
  • Willingness to work long hours and weekends as needed to support and maintain build schedules.
  • Travel may be required to other SpaceX facilities in Texas and Washington state (up to 50%).
  • Ability to perform job duties that require standing, kneeling, crouching, twisting upper body, working in cramped positions in small openings, and climbing hand over hand.
Compensation and Benefits:

Pay range: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year. Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX, which includes long-term incentives, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks.



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