SpaceX Thermal Engineer responsible for thermal design, testing, and validation of spacecraft and launch vehicles on the Starship Thermal & Fluids analysis team. Automates workflows and improves vehicle performance.
Responsibilities
Own thermal design of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data.
Automate workflow above to reduce engineering investment in per-mission analysis.
Pursue performance/robustness improvements.
Pursue operational simplicity and seek to reduce burden on other groups at SpaceX.
Produce quality documentation of your work to reduce miss-rate and improve efficiency.
Review peer work.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
1+ years of experience using engineering simulation software such as MATLAB (student project team and internship experience qualifies).
Preferred
Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
2+ years professional experience with thermal or fluid analysis.
Strong understanding of spacecraft and/or launch vehicle systems.
Experience with 0-D and 1-D thermal/fluid networks.
Experience with Thermal Desktop and/or ANSYS Workbench.
Working knowledge of scripting languages (specifically Python).
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to deliver against an aggressive schedule.
