At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Location
- Bastrop, TX
About the role
- SpaceX is looking for a Development Test Engineer to join the Starlink Development Test group, a fast-paced R&D focused team.
- The role involves designing, fabricating, and implementing test equipment and conducting development tests for next-generation Starlink hardware.
Responsibilities
- Create test stand concepts, fabrication drawings, wiring schematics, and instrumentation lists
- Design and analyze structures, fluid systems, and mechanisms
- Supervise the integration of test stands including fabrication, mechanical assembly and data/control systems
- Operate test stands with great attention to detail
- Develop test requirements with the flight engineering team, develop a design solution that meets or exceeds those requirements, and drive the campaign to closure
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
- 1+ years of experience in involvement with an extracurricular project team designing and building mechanical structures and/or high-pressure systems, academic research on mechanical structures, or professional experience designing and analyzing mechanical structures
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with hydraulic, thermal, structural, electromechanical, high pressure, and vacuum systems
- Experience with basic test instrumentation and control components such as pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTDs, strain gauges, accelerometers, flow meters, load cells, relays, solenoid valves, and encoders
- Experience with Unigraphics (NX)
- Experience performing finite element analysis (FEA)
- Experience with steel and/or aluminum weldment design and analysis
- Experience with high pressure (up to 30,000 psi) fluid system design and analysis
- Experience working with lithium-ion batteries
- Basic programming skills (Python, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS preferred)
Workplace
- Must be willing to travel as needed, up to 25% to other SpaceX sites
Skills
- Unigraphics (NX)
- FEA
- Python
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
