Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Joblaze summary
The Lead Mechanical Engineer for Starship Avionics at SpaceX oversees the design and integration of avionics systems, focusing on minimizing costs and mass while ensuring robust performance in extreme conditions. This role requires expertise in mechanical design, finite element analysis, and CAD, along with leadership experience to guide a team of engineers through complex projects. Ideal candidates are seasoned professionals with a strong background in mechanical engineering and a knack for creative problem-solving in fast-paced environments. The position is critical to advancing SpaceX's mission of enabling human life on Mars.
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- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from SpaceX's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship Avionics) role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in Starbase, TX.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship Avionics) role.
- Where is the role based?
- SpaceX is hiring for this position in Starbase, TX.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Mechanical Engineering, computer aided design, finite element analysis.
- 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 lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship Avionics) 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.
LEAD MECHANICAL ENGINEER (STARSHIP AVIONICS)
Starship Avionics Mechanical is responsible for producing an avionics system minimizing vehicle cost/mass and providing electrical sensing, actuation, and control for flying the vehicle. Avionics includes RF communication, navigation sensors, electrical actuators, video systems, propulsion sensors, and energy storage. This role leads a team of mechanical engineers, and it is within a larger avionics team of electrical engineers designing electrical system and vehicle operations. This role will partner closely with adjacent Starship engineering and production teams to continuously improve the design and manufacturability of avionics hardware for current and next-generation vehicles. Team mission is to develop highly producible mechanical designs and packaging solutions that protect electronics from the harsh mechanical and thermal environments of launch vehicle operations.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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
- 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
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline
- 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- 1+ years of experience leading teams, either formally or as part of a team project
- Creative problem solving that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data
- Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
- Self-motivated with strong multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills
- Strong sense of accountability and integrity
- Solid understanding and application of GD&T
- Proficient and frequent use of hand calculations, finite element analyses (FEA), and computer-aided designs (CAD)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- This position is based in Starbase, TX and requires being onsite - remote work not considered
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends to support critical project and mission milestones
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.