Manufacturing Automation Engineer, Solar

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $100,000–$135,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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TL;DR · Manufacturing Automation Engineer, Solar

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As a Manufacturing Automation Engineer, Solar (Starlink), you will join the Starlink Solar Automation Team to develop the next generation of solar arrays and their production systems. You will design, build, and qualify projects involving machine design, robotics, and manufacturing processes from initial ideation to production. Daily responsibilities include architecting and debugging PLC code, implementing vision systems for robotic guidance and quality control, and designing user interfaces for complex machines. You will create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics while ensuring ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA compliance. Required skills include experience with PLCs, COTS robots, servo motion, and field bus protocols like EtherCAT or Modbus. You will utilize tools such as Beckhoff TwinCAT, ABB Rapid, SQL, C#, Python, and Cognex Vision Pro to solve technical problems in satellite manufacturing.

Skills

PLC Beckhoff TwinCAT ABB Rapid Python C# .NET SQL MQTT OPC-UA OpenCV Cognex Vision Pro EtherCAT Profinet Ethernet/IP Modbus TCP/RTU HMI SCADA EPLAN Statistical Process Control Machine Vision Robotics

What you'll do

Design, build, qualify, and implement machine design, robotics, and manufacturing projects from ideation to production.
Architect, write, and debug PLC code for industrial automation.
Implement vision systems for robotic guidance, quality control, and data collection.
Design systems to control processes and track factory performance using data-driven methods.
Create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics for control panels.
Design user interfaces to make complex machines easy to use and troubleshoot.
Implement ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA compliant systems to ensure factory safety.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, or another STEM field.
1+ years’ experience in the design and commissioning of automation and controls systems for manufacturing.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
Experience with PLC programming, preferably Beckhoff TwinCAT structured text, state machines, and Object Oriented Programming (preferred).
Experience with robotics programming, preferably ABB Rapid (preferred).
Experience with HMI, SCADA, IoT (MQTT, OPC-UA), SQL, C#, and Python (preferred).
Experience with industrial machine vision, Cognex Vision Pro preferred, Halcon, and OpenCV acceptable (preferred).
Experience with electrical sizing, fail-safe circuit design, and troubleshooting industrial electrical systems (preferred).

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