Sr. Equipment Safety Engineer

Role overview

SpaceX is seeking a senior equipment safety engineer in Bastrop to provide technical oversight of machinery and functional-safety programmes across manufacturing and other high-hazard operations. This is an individual-contributor role with mentoring and cross-functional influence.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex machine and equipment risk assessments, safeguarding reviews and functional-safety analyses.
• Improve programmes for machine risk assessment, guarding, lockout/tagout, interlocks and control-system safety.
• Interpret OSHA requirements, ANSI B11, ISO 13849, IEC 62061 and related standards and translate them into practical controls.
• Lead incident and near-miss investigations and drive corrective and preventive engineering actions.
• Integrate safety into equipment design, installation, modification and management-of-change processes.
• Manage vendor and contractor studies, review technical deliverables and maintain procedures, specifications and training material.
• Coach junior and mid-level engineers and partner with EHS, engineering, manufacturing, purchasing and operations leaders.

Mandatory qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, occupational health and safety or another related technical field.
• At least five years of machine or equipment safety-engineering experience in industrial, manufacturing or high-hazard operations.
• Ability to work in manufacturing environments, wear required PPE and work extended hours or weekends when needed.
• Eligibility to meet the role’s United States export-control requirements.

Preferred experience

• Strong working knowledge of the listed machine and functional-safety standards.
• Hands-on guarding, interlock, LOTO and control-system review experience.
• CMSE, CSP or equivalent professional certification, plus mentoring and technical-writing experience.

The official Greenhouse page contains the complete application form.