# Automation & Controls Technician

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. AUTOMATION & CONTROLS TECHNICIAN Join the Starbase infrastructure team at SpaceX to build, install, operate, and maintain instrumentation and controls for critical power, HVAC, utility, and fluids systems supporting launch, production, supercomputer, and power-generation projects. As a technician, you will install and troubleshoot the sensors, valves, wiring, and control systems that run them, working from the field device through the PLC and SCADA. The role is based at Starbase, TX, with potential travel to other SpaceX facilities. RESPONSIBILITIES: Install, configure, operate, and maintain instrumentation, automation, control, and SCADA systems for the infrastructure, utility, and fluids systems Fabricate and install fluid-system components from schematics and drawings, including stainless and aluminum piping, ball and check valves, pressure regulators, and sensors and gauges Connect, verify, calibrate,

- **Id**: 3889964
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spacex-automation-controls-technician>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Brownsville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T20:41:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T02:34:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5736
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 66
- **Name**: SpaceX
- **Domain**: spacex.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/spacex>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 55
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.036
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: yes
- **AutoCAD** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **DNP3** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T20:48:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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