Fluid Systems Engineer, Production (Starship)

The role

This engineer will design, build, and commission fluid systems for Starship production. You will own hardware from problem statement through design, build, commissioning, and handoff.

What you will do

• Design, build, and commission fluid systems for Starship production.
• Size systems and select components from hand calculations and prove designs with testing.
• Own the system from concept through design reviews, failure mode analysis, 3-D modeling, and handoff.
• Define system operation and control and partner with the automation team.
• Support critical vehicle test operations and provide troubleshooting and technical support.
• Work with partner teams to develop efficient and scalable manufacturing processes.
• Develop and maintain detailed timelines to communicate project progress.
• Own the strategic outlook for systems including critical prioritization.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, or other technical discipline
• 1+ years of mechanical or fluids design, analysis, or build experience (student project team and internship experience qualifies)

Nice to have

• Demonstrated ownership of a hardware project with little supervision
• Experience sizing piping, valves, regulators, and relief devices using basic compressible and incompressible flow calculations
• Experience creating 3D CAD models, manufacturing drawings, fluid schematics, and failure mode analysis
• Experience deploying equipment into a factory, plant, or test environment
• Experience with high-pressure gas, cleanliness or contamination control, PLCs or industrial controls, basic electrical schematics, circuits, and testing, pressure-vessel or structural hand calculation
• Experience using and creating AI tools to solve engineering problems

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company aims to make a future where humanity explores the stars possible.