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Propulsion Engineer, Thermal & Fluid Analysis (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Analysis
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Propulsion Engineer focused on thermal and fluid analysis for Starship, ensuring fluid consumables are in the right place and conditions to maximize performance and reliability of a fully reusable transportation system.

Responsibilities

  • Run pre-mission analysis on attitude control systems, propellant conditions, tank pressurization systems to maximize performance while staying robust.
  • Automate the workflow above to reduce engineering investment in per-mission analysis.
  • Pursue performance/robustness improvements.
  • Pursue operational simplicity and seek to reduce burden on other groups at SpaceX.
  • Produce quality documentation of your work to reduce miss-rate and improve efficiency.
  • Review peer work.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
  • 1+ years of experience using engineering simulation software such as MATLAB (student project team and internship experience qualifies).

Skills

Required:Engineering simulation (MATLAB)Communication
Nice to have:0-D and 1-D thermal/fluid networksScripting (Python)Schedule urgency
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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