Starship Trajectory Engineer: Mission & Safety

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Trajectory Analysis Engineer (Starship) in the United States to join a team of engineers analyzing trajectories, iterating on mission objectives, and ensuring flight safety objectives are met in fast-paced environments.

You will analyze launch vehicle trajectories, develop flight plan solutions to enable mission objectives while maintaining safe vehicle operation, generate safety deliverables, and present trajectory analyses to internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics or engineering.
• 1+ years of experience with orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling and simulation.
• 1+ years of experience with Python or C++.

Responsibilities

• Analyze launch vehicle trajectories and vehicle performance in the presence of faults.
• Develop flight plan solutions to enable mission objectives while maintaining safe vehicle operation.
• Generate and submit flight safety deliverables.
• Produce and present trajectory analysis products for internal and external partners.
• Interface with internal operations, flight reliability, hardware teams, and regulatory partners such as the FAA.
• Engage in multidisciplinary vehicle systems investigations to motivate mission design, vehicle architecture, and analysis methodologies.
• Develop and evaluate flight termination system mission rules.
• Support launch and mission operations of vehicles you enabled.
• Automate mission-to-mission trajectory analysis product generation.

Skills

Orbital mechanics

Classical dynamics

Modeling and simulation

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics or engineering

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Trajectory Analysis Engineer (Starship) in the United States to join a team of engineers analyzing trajectories, iterating on mission objectives, and ensuring flight safety objectives are met in fast-paced environments.

You will analyze launch vehicle trajectories, develop flight plan solutions to enable mission objectives while maintaining safe vehicle operation, generate safety deliverables, and present trajectory analyses to internal and external partners.