SpaceX Manager of Mechanical Engineering for Starship Avionics leading a team to develop mechanical designs and packaging solutions for avionics hardware. Responsible for design, integration, test, and production efficiency of avionics systems.
Responsibilities
Extreme ownership of avionics engineers to enable the 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 make improvements necessary to hand off subsequent builds to production
Provide hands on support of production issues and drive design, process, and procedure improvements for maximum production efficiency and rate after first article build
Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing
Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch
Work closely with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize designs for rapid manufacturability
Hire and develop a team to produce reliable, high production rate, and low mass/cost avionics hardware
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in an engineeringAbility to work in a fast pacedADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTSThis position is based in Starbase
Required
Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline
5+ years of professional experience with mechanical design of components or assemblies
3+ years of experience as leader with direct reports
Preferred
Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data
Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
Self-motivated with strong multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills
Strong sense of accountability and integrity
Solid understanding and application of GD&T
Proficient and frequent use of hand calculations, finite element analyses (FEA), and computer-aided designs (CAD)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
This position is based in Starbase, TX and requires being onsite - remote work not considered
