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Thermal Engineer, Thermal & Fluid Analysis (Starship)

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

About the role

Thermal Engineer responsible for the thermal design, testing, and validation of Starship vehicles and hardware, with a focus on improving performance, reliability, and operability for a fully reusable transportation system.

Responsibilities

  • Own thermal design of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data.
  • Automate 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)Thermal/fluids analysis
Nice to have:0-D and 1-D thermal/fluid networksThermal Desktop / ANSYS WorkbenchPython scriptingCommunication
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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