Senior Avionics Mechanical Engineer - Starship

SpaceX; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer in Starship Avionics to lead a team of mechanical engineers, driving design, analysis, and manufacturability for avionics hardware. You will own concept development, trade studies, and testing to deliver high-performance, producible components for launch vehicles.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to optimize mass, cost, and schedule, and you must operate in a fast-paced, demanding environment onsite at Starbase, TX, with extended hours

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or math.
• 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies.

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 the 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 improvements for maximum efficiency.
• Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing.
• Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch.
• Work with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize rapid manufacturability.

Skills

GD&T proficiency

FEA & CAD

Leadership experience

Problem solving

Documentation

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or math

Tools

CAD

FEA

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer in Starship Avionics to lead a team of mechanical engineers, driving design, analysis, and manufacturability for avionics hardware. You will own concept development, trade studies, and testing to deliver high-performance, producible components for launch vehicles.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to optimize mass, cost, and schedule, and you must operate in a fast-paced, demanding environment onsite at Starbase, TX, with extended hours