Satellite Payload Mechanical Engineer — End-to-End Design

Spacex; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Mechanical Engineer for the Satellite Payload team working on Starlink hardware. You will tackle complex structural, thermal, and electromechanical challenges across space-grade hardware, from ideation to high-volume production and on-orbit operations.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance antenna systems, actuators, and mechanisms, while driving design optimization, testing, and manufacturing integration for reliable, scalable spacecraft hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
• Experience with CAD and FEA software packages.
• 1+ years of professional experience with mechanical/electromechanical design, analysis, testing, and/or manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Own hardware from conceptual design through high volume production and on-orbit operation for the Starlink constellation.
• Develop design criteria, collaborate on requirements, and drive system-level optimization.
• Rapidly iterate on designs and analysis to inform high level systems trades and steer overall product direction.
• Drive holistic DFM to create elegant designs with a focus on part count reductions and robust fabrication/assembly processes.
• Establish an efficient product lifecycle from supply chain to final integration balancing cost, complexity and quality.
• Perform environmental and performance testing on hardware to validate analysis and demonstrate design criteria compliance.
• Own product delivery timeline through conception, design, assembly, and launch.
• Demonstrate extreme ownership of product outcomes at every development stage.

Skills

CAD/FEA software

3D CAD (NX)

GD&T

Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

NX

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Mechanical Engineer for the Satellite Payload team working on Starlink hardware. You will tackle complex structural, thermal, and electromechanical challenges across space-grade hardware, from ideation to high-volume production and on-orbit operations.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance antenna systems, actuators, and mechanisms, while driving design optimization, testing, and manufacturing integration for reliable, scalable spacecraft hardware.