Tooling Engineer, Starship Components (Materials Engineering) is open at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. The posting gives a salary of $100K - $130K. Posted on Oct 27, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
will interface daily with design, automation, welding, NDE, and test engineers to make the machine that builds the machine and enforce standardized practices and procedures on multiple welded assemblies. RESPONSIBILITIES: Design and manufacture of welding fixtures for processes including, but no limited to, electron beam welding, laser beam welding, gas tungsten arc welding, and orbital tube welding. Collaborate…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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