Launch Engineer, Fluids (Starship)
Launch Engineer, Fluids (Starship)
Launch Engineer, Fluids (Starship)
SpaceX
SpaceX is seeking a Launch Engineer specializing in fluids for the Starship program. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining fluid and mechanical systems for rocket launches, requiring hands-on engineering skills in a fast-paced environment.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline
- 1+ years of hands-on build or design experience (internship, club, and competition team experience qualifies)
Responsibility
- Analyze, design, and build systems that support critical rocket launches and testing
- Cradle-to-grave project ownership through hosting design reviews, project decision justification, equipment procurement, and coordination and assistance of the construction of your ideas
- Design modular hardware capable of being manufactured at volume for future launch sites across the world
- Apply interdisciplinary engineering skills in fields of system-level process design and initial sizing, detailed pressurized fluid and thermal analysis, structural engineering, materials and component selection and cost/schedule optimization
- Work directly with technicians and support groups to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly
- Maintain a tight feedback loop with the launch operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines
- Activate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve design objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtime
- Hands-on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company launching rockets
