Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship Avionics)

The role

This role leads a team of mechanical engineers to develop mechanical designs and packaging solutions for Starship avionics. The work involves protecting electronics from harsh mechanical and thermal environments through design, integration, and testing.

What you will do

• Enable rapid progress of design, integration, test, and launch activities
• Drive conceptual design, architecture trades, and first order sizing
• Develop design requirements where definition is lacking
• Optimize development speed, mass, and cost on avionics
• Perform in depth first principles analysis and FEA to assess and optimize designs
• Incorporate design for manufacturing principles and drive first article builds
• Support production issues and drive design, process, and procedure improvements
• Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing
• Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch
• Work with analysts and manufacturing engineers to optimize designs

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline
• 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. D

Nice to have

• 1+ years of experience leading teams, either formally or as part of a team project
• Creative problem solving that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data
• Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
• Self-motivated with strong multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills
• Strong sense of accountability and integrity
• Solid understanding and application of GD&T
• Proficient and frequent use of hand calculations, finite element analyses (FEA), and computer-aided designs (CAD)

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company was founded on the belief that a future where humanity explores the stars is more exciting than one where we are not.