Starship Launch Fluid Systems Engineer - Hands-On Impact

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Launch Engineer, Fluid Systems (Starship) to design, build and maintain critical fluid systems for rocket launches. You will own cradle-to-grave design reviews, procurements, and integration with launch operations in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of mechanical/fluids design, CAD experience (NX preferred), and a proven ability to solve tough problems under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, or another engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of hands‑on build or design experience (internship, club, and competition team experience qualifies).

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and build systems that support critical rocket launches and testing.
• Cradle-to-grave project ownership through hosting design reviews, project decision justification, equipment procurement, and coordination and assistance of the construction of your ideas.
• Design modular hardware capable of being manufactured at volume for future launch sites across the world.
• Apply interdisciplinary engineering skills in fields of system-level process design and initial sizing, detailed pressurized fluid and thermal analysis, structural engineering, materials, and component selection, and cost/schedule optimization.
• Work directly with technicians and support groups to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly.
• Maintain a tight feedback loop with the launch operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines.
• Activate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve design objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtimes.
• Independently evaluate complex problems and arrive at solutions to seemingly impractical problems that best support the program.
• Hands‑on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company launching rockets.

Skills

Independent work

Team collaboration

Problem solving

CAD proficiency

NX CAD

Heavy equipment handling

High-pressure system understanding

Analytical reasoning

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in physics/mechanical/chemical/aerospace engineering

Tools

NX CAD

Finite element analysis (FEA)

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Launch Engineer, Fluid Systems (Starship) to design, build and maintain critical fluid systems for rocket launches. You will own cradle-to-grave design reviews, procurements, and integration with launch operations in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of mechanical/fluids design, CAD experience (NX preferred), and a proven ability to solve tough problems under tight deadlines.