Falcon & Dragon Design Criteria Engineer

Future Ventures; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company stock

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Discretionary bonuses

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance (short & long)

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Design Criteria Engineer (Falcon & Dragon) to join the design criteria and reliability team. You will help ensure flight hardware and operations meet requirements while guiding designs from concept to flight.

Responsibilities include enforcing design processes, reviewing hardware designs, developing criteria, and enabling aircraft-like operations of launch vehicles. A Bachelor's degree and 1+ years hardware experience are required; a Master's degree is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 1+ years of professional hardware engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the design process and requirements are followed for flight, launch, and recovery systems
• Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews and test campaigns
• Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems
• Setup processes to enable reliable operations of launch vehicles and spacecraft
• Drive design improvements through close collaboration with hardware teams
• Review vehicle changes to ensure proper qualification
• Develop tools for other engineering groups

Skills

Mastering engineering knowledge

Hands-on hardware experience

Aerospace systems familiarity

FEA software knowledge

Hardware project ownership

EM design and testing

Manufacturing tools & processes

Make vs buy decisions

Scripting with VB, Matlab, Python, and

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

NASTRAN

ABAQUS

ANSYS

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Design Criteria Engineer (Falcon & Dragon) to join the design criteria and reliability team. You will help ensure flight hardware and operations meet requirements while guiding designs from concept to flight.

Responsibilities include enforcing design processes, reviewing hardware designs, developing criteria, and enabling aircraft-like operations of launch vehicles. A Bachelor's degree and 1+ years hardware experience are required; a Master's degree is preferred.