Job Description
Manufacturing Engineer - Space Solar Hardware Position Details Location: Los Angeles (Hawthorne), CA Employment Type: Full-time Department: Starlight Solar Travel: Frequent About Starpath Starpath develops and manufactures the technologies that will enable humans to live on the Moon and Mars. Today, we are building robotic systems that locally produce the essential commodities a lunar civilization will require at extreme scale: water, power, and oxygen. Our ultimate goal is to build and operate a self-sustaining city on Mars. The Role The Starlight team is focused on dramatically improving space solar power to support Starpath's core mission and the greater space economy. Starlight manufactures the lowest cost and highest performance space solar ever, which will power the majority of new satellites built on Earth and all of Starpath's equipment on the Moon and Mars. As a Manufacturing Engineer on the Starlight team, you will develop and own the processes, tooling, and inspection techniques that enable us to manufacture space solar hardware at high rate and with uncompromising quality. 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