Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship)Active

The opportunity

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. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

What you'll do

  • Extreme ownership of avionics engineers to enable the rapid progress of: design, integration, test, and launch activities

  • Drive conceptual design, architecture trades, and first order sizing

  • Develop design requirements where definition is lacking

  • Optimize the development speed, mass, and cost on our avionics

  • Perform in depth first principles analysis and FEA to assess and optimize designs

  • Incorporate design for manufacturing principles, drive first article builds,: and make improvements necessary to hand off subsequent builds to production

What they're looking for

  • Support production issues and drive design, process, and procedure: improvements for maximum production efficiency and rate after first article build
  • Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing
  • Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch
  • Work closely with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading: requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize designs for rapid manufacturability