Flight-Ready Electric Propulsion Engineer (Mechanical)

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid parental leave

Vacation time and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is hiring an Electric Propulsion Engineer to join a collaborative team designing, testing, and qualifying flight-qualified electric propulsion systems for in-space constellations. The role covers end-to-end hardware ownership from design through production support and qualification to meet demanding reliability targets.

Responsibilities include test facility design and operation, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, reliability, and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, physics, or other engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and analyzing electric propulsion systems or related hardware.
• Proven ability to deliver high-reliability hardware for flight or mission-critical use.

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, test, and provide operational support for high-volume production spacecraft electric propulsion hardware
• Partner with manufacturing to enable efficient, reliable, high-rate production
• Design, build, modify, operate, and troubleshoot electric propulsion test facilities including vacuum chambers and data acquisition systems
• Analyze and review test data with numerical tools to confirm hardware operation and inform design decisions
• Lead root-cause investigations and component redesigns to improve reliability and production rates
• Develop and execute qualification test plans for flight readiness (vibration, shock, thermal cycle, life cycle, fault injection)
• Own critical spaceflight hardware end-to-end with cross-functional support
• Work with technicians, engineers, and managers to implement design/process improvements
• Communicate clearly under ambiguity and elevate risks early

Skills

Delivery hardware

Structural design

Numerical analysis programming

Python

MATLAB

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, physics, or other engineering discipline

Tools

Python

MATLAB

Job description

SpaceX is hiring an Electric Propulsion Engineer to join a collaborative team designing, testing, and qualifying flight-qualified electric propulsion systems for in-space constellations. The role covers end-to-end hardware ownership from design through production support and qualification to meet demanding reliability targets.

Responsibilities include test facility design and operation, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, reliability, and operations.