SpaceX - Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship Avionics)
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Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline • 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies • 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) • 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 • 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.
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
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