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Launch Engineer, Stage 0 Propellant Generation (Starship)

SpaceX· Propellant Generation - Starbase
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Cape Canaveral, FLFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Launch Engineer role focused on cryogenic propellant processing and generation systems for Starship launch sites and related facilities, with hands-on design, field work, and rapid problem-solving to enable rocket launches.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze, design, and build systems that support critical rocket launches and testing
  • Cradle-to-grave project ownership through hosting design reviews, project decision justification, equipment procurement, and coordination and assistance of the construction of your ideas
  • Apply interdisciplinary engineering skills in fields of system-level process design and initial sizing, detailed pressurized fluid and thermal analysis, structural engineering, materials and component selection and cost/schedule optimization
  • Work directly with technicians and support groups to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly
  • Maintain a tight feedback loop with operation and construction teams to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines
  • Activate Commission and troubleshoot equipment to achieve design objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtime
  • Apply a hands-on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company launching rockets
  • Provide innovative solutions to problems under minimal supervision or direction

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of hands-on build or design experience (internship, club, and competition team experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Mechanical engineering fundamentalsThermal and fluid analysisCommunication
Nice to have:Chemical engineering fundamentalsCADHands-on fabrication
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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