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Mechanical Engineer, Machine Design (Starship)

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

About the role

Mechanical Engineer focused on designing, building, and activating production machinery and infrastructure to enable Starship production and rapid manufacturing at SpaceX’s 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)
  • 1+ years of total experience in one or more of the following: involvement with an outside of the classroom project designing and building mechanical structures; academic research on mechanical structures; professional experience designing and analyzing mechanical structures

Skills

Required:CAD software proficiencyMechanical designFamiliarity with NXStructural sizing
Nice to have:Manufacturing planningControls collaboration
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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