Design Criteria Engineer (Starship)

The role

This engineer will work in an agile system engineering team to ensure hardware and operations meet mission requirements. They will facilitate cross-disciplinary action and problem-solving across all SpaceX programs.

What you will do

• Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams.
• Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews.
• Confirm acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
• Drive the development of tools and methods to ensure accurate and well-disseminated design criteria.
• Ensure a cohesive evolution of designs and operations across technical teams.
• Perform rapid conceptual design, analysis, and testing cycles on development hardware.
• Perform CAD modeling and testing oversight as needed.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of experience with mechanical design, manufacturing, and/or analysis (internship experience qualifies).
• 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

• Experience with aerospace structure systems: design, analysis, testing, and fabrication for use in high-performance or safety critical applications.
• Experience with fatigue, vibration, and thermal testing of mechanical assemblies.
• Hands-on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup, etc.
• Experience with material selection and make vs. buy decisions for system components.
• Experience with solid modeling (Siemens NX) and finite element analysis software (FEMAP).
• Experience performing closed-form and numerical stress analysis, simulations of dynamic systems, and fluid systems analysis.
• Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, and Excel.

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.