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.
SENIOR CHANGE ENGINEER
The Change Engineer will work inside the build and flight reliability
organization to manage and support the process of engineering change.
SpaceX needs the ability to change hardware to enable continuous
improvement of the reliability of its product lines. The Change Engineer
role looks to understand the system-level impacts of a requested change,
verify that these are adequately reviewed and vetted, with a primary
goal of minimizing flight risk associated with hardware, software, or
operational change.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical review of product line changes, communicate with
responsible engineers, build engineers, manufacturing engineers, and
test engineers to ensure that all impacts of a requested change are
well documented and understood across teams.
- Manage workflow for a given set of change requests, ensure that
changes are reviewed and approved in a timely manner. Verify
adherence to reviews for implementation and flight happening before
critical milestones.
- Help gather documentation, answer questions, and add or remove
subscribers and approvers to change requests.
- Work process and system-level automation and capability improvements
to the existing change system, examples include linking signatures
between change and other EIS tools, improving user interface
experience, or leading and managing meetings.
- Ensure change requests are properly documented, escalate changes to
leadership if risk is perceived as high or if change is considered
high impact.
- Develop individual analysis, review skills, and independent
assessments of risk associated with given change requests.
- Brief launch chief engineering team on changes and risks associated
with changes for a given flight, providing assessment of relative
risk for each change.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science or
mathematical discipline.
- 3+ years’ experience in complex engineering problem solving (design,
analysis, or test of complex systems).
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Master’s degree or PhD in an engineering, science or
mathematical discipline.
- 5+ years’ experience in the aerospace engineering field (design,
analysis, or test at the large assembly or system level).
- SQL and/or Python experience.
- Experience using or maintaining ERP systems.
- Experience with anomaly resolution and documentation of anomaly
reports and lessons learned databases.
- High proficiency with basic computer applications (word processing,
spreadsheets, presentations, email).
- Self-starter and willing to continuously learn new skills to keep up
with new technologies as they are introduced to the product lines.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Some travel may be required (no more than 10%).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.
- Day of launch and lead up to launch support required, some nights
and weekend work will be required based on launch schedule.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations,
applicant 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 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.