Design Reliability Engineer (Crew Starship)
About The Position
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 RELIABILITY ENGINEER (CREW STARSHIP) After 50 years, humankind will once again return to surface of the moon using SpaceX’s new vehicle, the Human Landing System (HLS) – this time for good. Leveraging the lessons learned from our flight proven Dragon spacecraft, Falcon and now Starship, HLS will usher in the next era of manned spaceflight and exploration, ultimately allowing us to establish permanent communities on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The HLS Design Reliability team is responsible for ensuring that flight hardware and concepts-of-operations lead to successful completion of missions while meeting or exceeding both internal and external design requirements. We perform a unique engineering role, evaluating and guiding engineering designs from concept to flight. We facilitate cross-disciplinary action and problem-solving across all SpaceX programs and staff.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
- 1+ years professional experience in fabrication, assembly, and/or testing.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
- Experience with aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, or other aerospace systems.
- Experience with aircraft, launch vehicle, or spacecraft requirements and standards.
- Experience with standards and requirement negotiation.
- Excellent customer interface skills.
- Experience with at least one commercial FEA package (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS).
- Hands on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup, etc.
- Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python and Excel.
Responsibilities
- Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems.
- Ensure that the SpaceX design process & design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and/or recovery systems, including:
- Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
- Drive improvements to vehicle design through close integration with hardware teams.
- Perform verification reviews hardware and systems.
- Ensure that the customer design criteria/requirements are addressed for flight systems, including:
- Lead spacecraft certification efforts through direct interaction with U.S. Government customers.
- Tailor and negotiating requirements and verifications to meet program goals.
- Review vehicle changes to ensure qualification compliance.
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
