Battery Engineer, Spaceflight Avionics & Power Systems

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne is seeking a Battery Engineer for the Falcon & Dragon Avionics Hardware team. You will design, analyze, and troubleshoot battery packs from development through production and flight, focusing on reliability, manufacturability, and system integration.

You will own test setups, perform environmental and abuse testing, and collaborate across programs to optimize pack performance and safety for spaceflight applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
• 1+ years of hardware design experience (projects or internships qualify).
• 1+ years of experience with electrical test equipment (multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes)

Responsibilities

• Provide extreme ownership of battery assemblies for flight across all areas of the product life cycle.
• Support the development of battery pack designs, layouts, and electrical schematics from initial requirements to in-flight operation.
• Define manufacturing requirements, specifications, and validation from production cells to full scale packs.
• Collaborate with partner teams and programs on cell selection, pack configuration, and system integration.
• Drive changes to electrical schematics and mechanical drawings that improve reliability and manufacturability.
• Design test setups and execute hardware validation through benchtop, environmental testing, and abuse testing campaigns.
• Optimize pack level system operation for degradation and reliability.
• Derive engineering justification to resolve production issues throughout assembly, test, and vehicle integration.

Skills

Lithium-ion batteries

BMS integration

MATLAB

Python

LTspice

Circuit blocks

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field

Tools

MATLAB

LTspice

SIMetrix

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne is seeking a Battery Engineer for the Falcon & Dragon Avionics Hardware team. You will design, analyze, and troubleshoot battery packs from development through production and flight, focusing on reliability, manufacturability, and system integration.

You will own test setups, perform environmental and abuse testing, and collaborate across programs to optimize pack performance and safety for spaceflight applications.