Lead Starship Avionics Mechanical Engineer

SpaceX; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Starbase, TX is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship) to lead the avionics mechanical team and advance packaging solutions for harsh launch environments.

You will own design, analysis, and manufacturability, partnering with aerospace and production teams to accelerate development and ensure readiness for flight.

The role requires strong CAD/FEA skills, GD&T knowledge, and a track record leading mechanical teams in fast-paced aerospace programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline.
• 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies.
• Proven leadership or team-leading experience in engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Extreme ownership of avionics engineers to enable rapid progress of design, integration, test, and launch activities.
• Drive conceptual design, architecture trades, and first order sizing.
• Develop design requirements where definition is lacking.
• Optimize development speed, mass, and cost on our avionics.
• Perform in depth first principles analysis and FEA to assess and optimize designs.
• Incorporate design for manufacturing principles, drive first article builds, and hand off to production.
• Support production issues and drive design, process, and procedure improvements for maximum production efficiency and rate after first article build.
• Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing.
• Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch.
• Work closely with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize designs for rapid manufacturability

Skills

Leadership

CAD

FEA

GD&T

Thermal analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related field

Tools

CAD software

FEA software

Job description

SpaceX in Starbase, TX is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship) to lead the avionics mechanical team and advance packaging solutions for harsh launch environments.

You will own design, analysis, and manufacturability, partnering with aerospace and production teams to accelerate development and ensure readiness for flight.

The role requires strong CAD/FEA skills, GD&T knowledge, and a track record leading mechanical teams in fast-paced aerospace programs.