Propulsion Engineer (Raptor Components)
About The Position
The Raptor Components team conceptualizes, models, drafts, and supports mechanical and electro-mechanical control assemblies that run the Raptor engine. On this team, you will design and ensure success of these assemblies by combining pneumatics, mechanical, electrical, and software into integrated packages enabling streamlined manufacturing and engine operation. We design, analyze, build, test, and fly components for simplicity, manufacturability, and reliability in extreme thermal, pressure, and vibe environments. You will provide input into vehicle architecture trades and take a lead role in design and flight readiness on Starship, the vehicle that will transform Earth orbit operations, normalize space technology, and make humanity multi-planetary.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or physics.
- 1+ years of experience designing and analyzing mechanical systems via professional work experience, project/research-based student experience, or a combination of both.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree or 1+ years of professional experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
- Experience designing, building, testing and troubleshooting mechanical systems.
- Understanding of fundamental principals in fluid systems, solid mechanics, and/or electrical systems.
- Hands-on experience with fluid, gas, mechanical, high voltage, or test instrumentation and control.
- Knowledge of electro-mechanical devices, gears, actuators, motors, valves, regulators, or pumps.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Responsibilities
- Generate and improve CAD, engineering drawings, analysis, component specifications, and risk assessments to maximize vehicle reliability.
- Spearhead root cause investigations that arise in development, production, test, integration and launch, implementing corrective actions, proactively seeking out hardware issues, and implementing solutions early.
- Develop state-of-the-art, manufacturable, 99.99% reliable flow control devices.
- Safely implement thorough component testing and checkouts across multiple build, test, and launch sites.
- Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, testing, and flight teams to achieve SpaceX’s most reliable, highest rate components, striving for high factory yield and automotive volume/cost.
- Inform system-level architecture, with component capabilities and vulnerabilities in mind, to minimize cost of payload to orbit.
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
