Sr. Responsible Engineer - Turbomachinery (Starship)

The role

This role focuses on the development of turbomachinery for Starship's fluid systems. The engineer will design, analyze, and build advanced turbopumps to manage pressurization for travel to the Moon and Mars.

What you will do

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of turbomachinery and manufacturing engineers
• Design, build and test turbopumps for Starship
• Develop and train teammates to support empowered product ownership
• Own turbomachinery product families
• Interface with the production team to ensure designs are translated into rockets
• Maintain a positive and constructive attitude
• Work collaboratively with commercial and governmental customers

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience in turbomachinery design and analysis role (Structural and/or fluid)
• Professional experience with 3D CAD modeling, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), manufacturing process and machine setup
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed to resolve critical technical or timing issues
• Ability to perform hands-on work in all environments (heat, cold, rain), in tight quarters or at heights
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed; flexibility required
• Ability to focus while working in hazardous conditions and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline
• Experience in a highly technical position that required a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner to enthusiastically accomplish tasks with tight time or budget constraints
• Management experience leading a technical team, cooperating with cross-functional groups to accomplish outstanding results
• Demonstrated leadership qualities through cross-functional teamwork on challenging problems
• Understanding of engineering fundamentals and the ability to perform basic analysis
• Strong desire to mentor and grow employees
• Deep understanding of thermodynamics, compressible and incompressible flow, thermochemistry mechanics, structural design in demanding environments, and/or materials
• Professional experience using Siemens NX (Unigraphics), ANSYS or Fluent

About the company

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. The company is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars.