Sr. Thermal Engineer, Thermal & Fluid Analysis (Starship)

SpaceX • Hawthorne, CA

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About The Position

As a Senior Thermal Engineer on the Starship Thermal & Fluids analysis team, you are responsible for the thermal design, test, and validation of vehicles and hardware. You will make engineering decisions to improve vehicle performance and reliability to help create a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience using engineering simulation software such as MATLAB.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years professional experience with thermal or fluid analysis.
• Strong understanding of spacecraft and/or launch vehicle systems.
• Experience with 0-D and 1-D thermal/fluid networks.
• Experience with Thermal Desktop and/or ANSYS Workbench.
• Working knowledge of scripting languages (specifically Python).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to deliver against an aggressive schedule.

Responsibilities

• Own thermal design of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data.
• Automate workflow above to reduce engineering investment in per-mission analysis.
• Pursue performance/robustness improvements.
• Pursue operational simplicity and seek to reduce burden on other groups at SpaceX.
• Produce quality documentation of your work to reduce miss-rate and improve efficiency.

Benefits

• long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• short & long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• paid parental leave
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 10 or more paid holidays per year
• 5 days of sick leave per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees