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Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Machine Design (Starship)

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

About the role

Senior mechanical engineer focused on design, build, and activation of production assets for Starship at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas, with potential involvement across SpaceX sites supporting the Starship program.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and activate custom machinery and infrastructure to enable the production and handling of Starship launch vehicles
  • Develop the Starfactory and Gigafactory of the future to enable rapid build, test, and operation of transport architectures
  • Collaborate with vehicle engineers to influence vehicle design and manufacturing processes to maximize production rate
  • Use technical knowledge to execute on structural sizing, mechanism design, hardware fabrication, and activation testing to deliver results on projects
  • Create detailed models and engineering prints in NX
  • Perform engineering hand calculations and analysis to size structures and mechanisms
  • Create manufacturing planning for scope performed by internal welding and toolmaking teams
  • Support machine activation with controls engineering team and perform development testing with production engineering team

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • Experience using a CAD software design package (e.g. Solidworks, NX, CATIA, or ProE)
  • 5+ years of professional experience designing and analyzing mechanical structures

Skills

Required:CAD and engineering drawingStructural sizing and mechanism design
Nice to have:Finite element analysisGD&TWelding and fabricationProject managementcollaboration and teamwork
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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