SpaceX

2 months ago

Instrumentation & Controls Technician

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Job Summary

Support the build-up and maintenance of SpaceX data and control systems, focusing on instrumentation, data acquisition, and electrical systems to ensure safe, economical, and reliable access to space. You'll calibrate, test, troubleshoot, and document instrumentation while collaborating with the hardware and manufacturing teams on development and production units.

Location: United States

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

•Maintain, calibrate, configure, monitor, test, troubleshoot, install, and repair instrumentation, process controls, data acquisition systems, and electrical systems
•Investigate, diagnose, correct, and document instrumentation or system malfunctions
•Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electrical and electronic units, assemblies, components, parts, equipment, and systems
•Perform wire terminations to a variety of instruments and verify sensor health: pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, limits, and flow meters
•Read and interpret planning documents, schematics, wiring diagrams, specifications, drawings, manuals, blueprints, and engineering sketches

Key Requirements

•High school diploma or equivalency
•2+ years of instrumentation experience (pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, flow meters, multimeters, or oscilloscopes)
•Experience with instrumentation including RTDs, strain gauges, load cells, displacement transducers, pressure transducers, thermocouples, and flow meters
•Knowledge of Wheatstone Bridge Theory, Ohm's Law, and DC electronics
•Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and perform physically demanding tasks

Experience:2+ yearsInstrumentationData acquisitionElectrical systems

Skills:InstrumentationData acquisitionElectrical systemsDc electronicsSolderingWiringBus architecturesPCI/PCIePXI/PXIeGPIBSerialUSBWindowsMicrosoft OfficeSCXIPXI-based

Languages:English

Tech Stack:Pressure transducersThermocouplesValvesFlow metersMultimetersOscilloscopesRTDsStrain gaugesLoad cellsDC power suppliesDC-DC convertersUPSSCXIPXIPCIPCIeGPIBSerialUSBWindows

Company Brief

SpaceX

Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers, aiming to reduce space transportation costs and enable human life on Mars through reusable launch vehicles and integrated space systems.

Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Established Company

Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States

Founded: 2002

Glassdoor: 4.2

Website LinkedIn

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SpaceX

2 months ago

Instrumentation & Controls Technician

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 3 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: United States

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

•Maintain, calibrate, configure, monitor, test, troubleshoot, install, and repair instrumentation, process controls, data acquisition systems, and electrical systems
•Investigate, diagnose, correct, and document instrumentation or system malfunctions
•Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electrical and electronic units, assemblies, components, parts, equipment, and systems
•Perform wire terminations to a variety of instruments and verify sensor health: pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, limits, and flow meters
•Read and interpret planning documents, schematics, wiring diagrams, specifications, drawings, manuals, blueprints, and engineering sketches

Key Requirements

•High school diploma or equivalency
•2+ years of instrumentation experience (pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, flow meters, multimeters, or oscilloscopes)
•Experience with instrumentation including RTDs, strain gauges, load cells, displacement transducers, pressure transducers, thermocouples, and flow meters
•Knowledge of Wheatstone Bridge Theory, Ohm's Law, and DC electronics
•Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and perform physically demanding tasks

Experience:2+ yearsInstrumentationData acquisitionElectrical systems

Skills:InstrumentationData acquisitionElectrical systemsDc electronicsSolderingWiringBus architecturesPCI/PCIePXI/PXIeGPIBSerialUSBWindowsMicrosoft OfficeSCXIPXI-based

Languages:English

Tech Stack:Pressure transducersThermocouplesValvesFlow metersMultimetersOscilloscopesRTDsStrain gaugesLoad cellsDC power suppliesDC-DC convertersUPSSCXIPXIPCIPCIeGPIBSerialUSBWindows

Company Brief

SpaceX

Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Established Company

Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States

Founded: 2002

Glassdoor: 4.2

Website LinkedIn