Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Joblaze summary
The Design Criteria Engineer at SpaceX plays a crucial role in enhancing vehicle designs by collaborating closely with hardware teams and conducting thorough design reviews. This position requires a solid foundation in mechanical design and analysis, with preferred experience in aerospace systems and various manufacturing processes. Ideal candidates are those with at least a year of relevant experience, particularly in high-performance applications, who thrive in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary environment. The role is part of an agile engineering team focused on innovative solutions for space exploration.
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Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 1 year of relevant experience for this Design Criteria Engineer (Starship) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Visual Basic, Excel, Python, Siemens NX, MATLAB, FEMAP.
- Does SpaceX sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- SpaceX targets junior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Design Criteria Engineer (Starship) role at SpaceX.
From the original posting
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.
DESIGN CRITERIA ENGINEER (STARSHIP)
The design criteria team is responsible for ensuring that hardware and operations lead to the mission's successful completion and meet or exceed requirements. This engineer will be industry-unique, stepping into an agile system engineering team, facilitating cross-disciplinary action and problem-solving across all SpaceX programs and engineering staff.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams.
- Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews; confirm acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
- Drive the development of tools and methods to ensure accurate and well-disseminated design criteria.
- Ensure a cohesive evolution of designs and operations across the different technical teams: avionics, propulsion, structures, launch, manufacturing, analysis, and test.
- Work with a team to perform rapid conceptual design, analysis, and testing cycles on development hardware (may include CAD modeling and testing oversight as needed).
- Derive hardware capabilities enabling operational adaptability while staying within hardware limits.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
- 1+ years of experience with mechanical design, manufacturing, and/or analysis (internship experience qualifies).
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with aerospace structure systems: design, analysis, testing, and fabrication for use in high-performance or safety critical applications.
- Experience with fatigue, vibration, and thermal testing of mechanical assemblies.
- Hands-on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup, etc.
- Experience with material selection and make vs. buy decisions for system components.
- Experience with solid modeling (Siemens NX) and finite element analysis software (FEMAP).
- Experience performing closed-form and numerical stress analysis, simulations of dynamic systems, and fluid systems analysis.
- Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, and Excel.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be willing to work long hours and weekends as needed.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com.