Mechanical Engineer (Starship)

• Develop design concepts from a clean sheet and size vehicle structures based on flight loads

• Collaborate with peers from different vehicle systems to develop designs that balance mass, cost, and capability

• Create detailed designs to implement structural concepts and generate CAD models in NX for components, assemblies, and vehicle integration

• Build finite element models to assess your designs in detail and analyze your structures to prove they meet the needs of the vehicle

• Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on your designs rapidly

• Validate your designs by building development articles to test individual joints and design elements for strength

• Perform structural testing on subassemblies and full sections of the airframe

• Partner with build engineers and technicians to improve your designs

• Support the assembly of your hardware in the factory, witness your designs being brought to life daily, and watch them take flight and make history

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering

• 1+ years of engineering experience designing, analyzing, or building structures (internship and school projects experience qualify)

• Strong ability to use data and analysis to make fast data-driven decisions

• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals

• Ability to perform trade studies and make clear recommendations using first principles and engineering fundamentals even with partial information

• Experience working at a nimble engineering organization or in a highly technical position that required a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner to accomplish tasks with tight time or budget constraints

• Experience building hardware or have a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world

• Demonstrated rapid growth; you've held successive positions of increasing responsibility within an organization, were able to get yourself up to speed at a heroic pace, and accomplished something meaningfully difficult early in your career

• Experience leading or working on an engineering competition team, i.e. Formula SAE, Baja SAE, RoboSub, Combat Robotics or similar

• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary

• Ability to travel to Starbase, TX (up to 25% travel may be required)

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

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