Test Engineer (Starship)
Test Engineer (Starship)
SpaceX
SpaceX is seeking a Test Engineer for the Starship team, responsible for initial system testing of the Starship Vehicle. The role involves developing testing procedures, ensuring vehicle health, and improving testing efficiency to support rapid production and launch goals.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 1+ years of hands-on engineering experience (design teams and previous internships qualify)
Responsibility
- Develop deep understanding of vehicle avionics/propulsion architecture, and how the vehicle operates as an integrated system
- Establish test criteria and pass/fail requirements for integrated vehicle checkouts
- Develop procedures and processes for validation of a rapidly evolving spacecraft
- Identify and drive improvements to testing efficiency and safety of vehicle testing
- Troubleshoot hardware issues real-time, and push feedback to correct owners to eliminate repeat issues
- Interface with design, build, and systems engineering as well as production leadership and technicians in the field
- Develop and lead training efforts to build test execution capability within production and outside engineering teams
- Build requirements and provide feedback for large scope GSE projects needed to enable checkouts execution and achieve production rate
- Develop the Starship production line, and provide feedback to Starship design to maximize efficiency and minimize cost/ton to orbit
