Thermal Development Technician, Robotic Welding (Starship) - Level 4/5
SpaceX · Starbase, TX
Full-time Posted 4 days ago
About this role
<div class="content-intro"><p>SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.</p></div><p><strong><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0">THERMAL DEVELOPMENT </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0">TECHNICIAN, ROBOTIC </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0">WELDING</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0">(</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0">STARSHIP</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0">)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113004336 BCX0"> – LEVEL 4/5</span></strong></p> <p>The Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) team tackles space exploration’s most challenging problems, owning the development and integration of the heat shield for our next-generation spacecraft, Starship. This hardware must survive the most extreme environments known to mankind and protect our vehicle through atmospheric reentry
As a technician on the TPS team, you will primarily be responsible for maintaining, programming, and operating robotic and automated systems while supporting heat shield manufacturing and integration.</p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide maintenance on various equipment: vacuum chambers, thermal chambers, CNC machines, and robotic welders</li> <li>Maintain, repair, and operate all robotic assets to ensure their proper operating condition</li> <li>Replace and install electrical components such as switches, relays, contactors, transformers, rectifiers, circuit breakers, fuses, and sensors for temperature/pressure/position</li> <li>Replace and install mechanical components such as bearings, bushings, motors, shafts, collars, couplings, pulleys, belts, gears, chains, rollers, pum
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