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Responsible Engineer – Turbomachinery – Starship
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | West Athens, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
- 2+ years of professional experience in a turbomachinery design and analysis role (structural and/or fluid)
- Professional experience with 3D CAD modeling, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), manufacturing process, and machine setup
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of turbomachinery and manufacturing engineers, driving the rapid development and execution of designs for Starship’s propulsion system turbomachinery
- Design, build and test turbopumps for Starship, the most advanced orbital vehicle propulsion system ever designed
- Develop and train teammates to support empowered product ownership utilizing risk-conscious decision-making skills under pressure
- Own turbomachinery product families – every engineer at SpaceX assumes profound responsibility for their hardware
- Interface with our world-class production team to ensure that your team’s designs are successfully translated into the fleet of rockets that is revolutionizing access to space
- Maintain a positive and constructive attitude in the face of technical and non-technical challenges
- Work collaboratively with commercial and governmental customers to ensure 100% mission success
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in an engineering discipline
- Experience in a highly technical position that required a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner to enthusiastically accomplish tasks with tight time or budget constraints
- Management experience leading a technical team, cooperating with cross-functional groups to accomplish outstanding results
- Demonstrated leadership qualities through cross-functional teamwork on challenging problems
- Understanding of engineering fundamentals and the ability to perform basic analysis
- Strong desire to mentor and grow employees
- Deep understanding of thermodynamics, compressible and incompressible flow, thermochemistry mechanics, structural design in demanding environments, and/or materials
- Professional experience using Siemens NX (Unigraphics), ANSYS or Fluent
- Understanding of engineering fundamentals and the ability to perform basic analysis
