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Launch Engineer, Fluid Systems (Starship)

SpaceX· Launch Fluids Engineering - Starbase
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering role focused on design, build, activation, and maintenance of fluid systems for Starship launches and testing, with rapid iteration and hands-on field work.

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
  • Design modular hardware capable of being manufactured at volume for future launch sites across the world
  • 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 the launch operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines
  • Activate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve design objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtimes
  • Independently evaluate complex problems and arrive at solutions to seemingly impractical problems that best support the program
  • Hands-on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company launching rockets

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in physics, 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:Interdisciplinary engineeringProject management
Nice to have:Fabrication and assemblyInstrumentation and testingCADASME piping and pressure vessel designProblem solving under pressure
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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