New Graduate Engineer, Infrastructure

The role

This person will build infrastructure for power generation and supercompute at Starbase. You will support mechanical scope from concept through design, fabrication, construction, and commissioning.

What you will do

• Develop design concepts and help size infrastructure systems
• Collaborate with peers to develop designs balancing cost, schedule, reliability, and capability
• Create detailed designs and generate CAD models and prints
• Build analysis models to assess designs
• Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on designs
• Support validation through development hardware, mockups, or first articles
• Support testing and commissioning of subsystems and full installations
• Partner with construction, build engineers, and technicians to improve designs
• Support installation of hardware in the field
• Participate in design reviews

Required qualifications

• Graduating with a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027
• Degree in an engineering discipline or physics
• 1+ years of mechanical design, analysis, build, or test experience via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary
• Ability and willingness to relocate to Starbase, TX (Brownsville, TX area)
• Stand: Up to 3 hours per day
• Sit: Up to 6 hours per day
• Push/Pull: Up to 50 lbs. (unassisted) Up to 15 minutes per day
• Overhead reach: Up to 3 hours per day
• Walk: Up to 3 hours per day
• Lift/Carry: Up to 25 lbs. (unassisted) Up to 15 minutes per day
• Climb (ladder/stairs): Up to 1 hour per day

Nice to have

• Coursework or project experience in mechanical design, structural analysis, fluids, thermal systems, or power and cooling equipment
• Experience with CAD, and with hand calculations or an analysis package such as NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, Python, Matlab, or Excel
• Strong ability to use data and analysis to make fast data-driven decisions
• Ability to perform trade studies and make clear recommendations using first principles and engineering fundamentals
• Experience working at a nimble engineering organization or in a highly technical position
• Excelled in ultra-competitive environments
• Experience building hardware or a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world
• Succeeded in multiple endeavors at once
• Demonstrated rapid growth
• Demonstrated resilience and the ability to overcome failure or extreme odds

Before you apply

• Candidate may be required to complete a pre-employment questionnaire and/or physical to confirm capabilities, which may include a medical history review

About the company

SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make human life on Mars possible. The company 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.