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Manager, Mechanical Engineering (Starship Avionics)

SpaceX· Starship Avionics Engineering
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Leads a mechanical engineering team within Starship Avionics to design, develop, and manufacture highly producible avionics hardware that protects electronics in harsh launch vehicle environments, partnering with adjacent Starship engineering and production teams.

Responsibilities

  • Extreme ownership of avionics engineers to enable the rapid progress of design, integration, test, and launch activities
  • Drive conceptual design, architecture trades, and first order sizing. Develop design requirements where definition is lacking
  • Optimize the development speed, mass, and cost on our avionics
  • Perform in depth first principles analysis and FEA to assess and optimize designs
  • Incorporate design for manufacturing principles, drive first article builds, and make improvements necessary to hand off subsequent builds to production
  • Provide hands on support of production issues and drive design, process, and procedure improvements for maximum production efficiency and rate after first article build
  • Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing
  • Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch
  • Work closely with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize designs for rapid manufacturability
  • Hire and develop a team to produce reliable, high production rate, and low mass/cost avionics hardware

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline
  • 5+ years of professional experience with mechanical design of components or assemblies
  • 3+ years of experience as leader with direct reports

Skills

Required:Mechanical design of components or assembliesLeadership / team managementFirst principles analysisDesign for manufacturing (DFM)CAD
Nice to have:Finite element analysis (FEA)GD&T
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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