Aviation Certification Engineer (Starlink)
About The Position
The Starlink team is dedicated to providing fast, reliable internet to underserved populations. We are building the world's largest satellite constellation to create a global internet network. This role focuses on developing high-speed internet solutions for commercial and private aircraft. As an Aviation Certification Engineer, you will be responsible for managing projects with the FAA, owning the certification process, milestones, and documentation required for Starlink's flight authorization. You will collaborate with design and manufacturing teams to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance throughout the hardware design lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline
- 1+ years of experience in mechanical or electrical product design, testing, or manufacturing (internship or extracurricular experience is applicable)
Nice To Haves
- 2+ years of experience with FAA certification
- Experience with DO-160 environmental testing, aircraft ground testing, aircraft flight testing
- Previous ownership of an aerospace certification from application to FAA acceptance
- Demonstrate ability to produce documentation deliverables on a tight timeline
- Extremely strong proficiency with Microsoft Word as a tool to produce and manage large documents
- Experience generating schematics, diagrams, and data visualizations that clearly communicate design intent of systems, tests or analysis
- Hardware ownership for mechanical or electrical systems through entire lifecycle (design, qualification, manufacturing, and launch)
- Understand failure modes of complex mechanical and electrical systems
- Extremely strong verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Produce certification deliverables on a tight timeline that comply with FAA regulations for supplemental type certification applications (project specific certification plans, test plans, analysis & substantiation reports, conformity inspection plans, operational documents, airplane flight manual supplements)
- Drive certification process improvements to reduce overhead and improve schedules for future certification applications
- Manage multiple concurrent certification efforts and provide regular updates on schedule and deliverables to senior management
- Serve as a subject matter expert on the FAA certification process with internal partners and devise/improve SpaceX internal tools and processes to meet aviation program priorities
- Work with hardware owners to ensure regulatory compliance early in the design cycle
Benefits
- Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
- Potential discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Various other discounts and perks
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
