SpaceX Design Criteria Engineer at SpaceX ensures hardware and operations meet mission requirements for Starship. Facilitates cross-disciplinary problem-solving and drives improvements in vehicle design and design criteria tools.
Responsibilities
Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams.
Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews; confirm acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
Drive the development of tools and methods to ensure accurate and well-disseminated design criteria.
Ensure a cohesive evolution of designs and operations across the different technical teams: avionics, propulsion, structures, launch, manufacturing, analysis, and test.
Work with a team to perform rapid conceptual design, analysis, and testing cycles on development hardware (may include CAD modeling and testing oversight as needed).
Derive hardware capabilities enabling operational adaptability while staying within hardware limits.
Qualification
Experience with fatigueADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Required
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
1+ years of experience with mechanical design, manufacturing, and/or analysis (internship experience qualifies).
Preferred
Experience with aerospace structure systems: design, analysis, testing, and fabrication for use in high-performance or safety critical applications.
Experience with fatigue, vibration, and thermal testing of mechanical assemblies.
Hands-on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layup, etc.
Experience with material selection and make vs. buy decisions for system components.
Experience with solid modeling (Siemens NX) and finite element analysis software (FEMAP).
Experience performing closed-form and numerical stress analysis, simulations of dynamic systems, and fluid systems analysis.
Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, and Excel.
