Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and perform acceptance testing of manufacturing processes, techniques, and tools to enable efficient and high-rate manufacturing
• Design and implement precision tooling to eliminate assembly error, improve quality, and minimize cycle time
• Automate novel processes to ensure repeatability on high-rate manufacturing lines
• Work closely with design engineering teams to influence solar panel architecture with design for manufacturing (DFM) improvements
• Stand up in-process inspection methods, including automated approaches, to catch issues at the source and improve first-pass yield
• Lead the handoff of hardware from development into production, ensuring processes are documented, stable, and ready to scale
• Simplify specs, streamline workflows, and cut unnecessary complexity to reduce overhead

Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace, manufacturing, materials, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• 1+ years of manufacturing and process design experience (internship and academic experience applicable)
• Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. government export authorizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline
• Hands-on experience with mixed value stream or high-rate manufacturing lines
• Proficiency in mechanical assembly methods, testing, failure mode effects analysis, and troubleshooting
• Prior experience developing and improving weld processes and inspection techniques, including automation
• Experience using SQL or other data management tools to inform priorities and measure performance
• Exposure to aerospace, space, or other high-reliability hardware environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity package
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health, dental, and vision coverage

About the Company

Starpath develops and manufactures the technologies that will enable humans to live on the Moon and Mars. We are building robotic systems that locally produce essential commodities like water, power, and oxygen to support a self-sustaining civilization in space.