At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Location
- Starbase, TX
About the role
- SpaceX is looking for a New Graduate Mechanical Engineer to help build the infrastructure behind power generation and supercompute at Starbase.
- You will support mechanical scope from concept through design, fabrication, construction, and commissioning.
- The work can span power generation, fluid and cooling systems, and the structures and equipment that production depends on.
Responsibilities
- Develop design concepts and help size infrastructure systems based on operational loads, site conditions, and how the facility will actually run
- Collaborate with peers across disciplines to develop designs that balance cost, schedule, reliability, and capability
- Create detailed designs and generate CAD models and prints for components, assemblies, and integration into the larger site
- Build analysis models to assess designs and confirm they meet the needs of the system
- Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on designs rapidly
- Support validation through development hardware, mockups, or first articles, and testing of critical joints, components, and design elements
- Support testing and commissioning of subsystems and full installations
- Partner with construction, build engineers, and technicians to improve designs and resolve issues found during build and installation
- Support installation of hardware in the field, witness designs being built and brought online, and see them go into service
- Participate in design reviews and help move designs from development into installed hardware
Requirements
- Graduating with a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027
- Degree in an engineering discipline or physics
- 1+ years of mechanical design, analysis, build, or test experience via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary
- Ability and willingness to relocate to Starbase, TX (Brownsville, TX area)
- Candidate must be capable of safely working at heights (up to 500 ft), in confined spaces, using an air purifying respirator, and performing the physical requirements of the job listed in the job description
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- Coursework or project experience in mechanical design, structural analysis, fluids, thermal systems, or power and cooling equipment
- Experience with CAD, and with hand calculations or an analysis package such as NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, Python, Matlab, or Excel
- Strong ability to use data and analysis to make fast data-driven decisions
- 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
- Excelled in ultra-competitive environments
- Experience building hardware or a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world
- Succeeded in multiple endeavors at once; maybe you worked through college, were a student athlete, or demonstrated strong work or academic performance in multiple fields
Skills
- CAD
- NASTRAN
- ABAQUS
- ANSYS
- Python
- Matlab
- Excel
