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Sr. Trajectory Analysis Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship GNC
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior trajectory analysis engineer responsible for solving flight trajectory and safety challenges for Starship missions, including analysis of launch vehicle trajectories, flight plan optimization, and interaction with internal teams and regulatory partners to ensure flight safety objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze launch vehicle trajectories and vehicle performance in the presence of faults
  • Find creative flight plan solutions to enable mission objectives, while maintaining safe vehicle operation
  • Generate and submit flight safety deliverables
  • Produce and present trajectory analysis products for internal and external partners
  • Interface with internal operations teams, flight reliability teams, hardware teams, and external regulatory partners such as the FAA
  • Engage in multi-disciplinary vehicle systems investigations to motivate mission design, vehicle architecture, and analysis methodologies
  • Develop and evaluate flight termination system mission rules
  • Support launch and mission operations of vehicles that you enabled
  • Conduct flight data review
  • Automate mission-to-mission trajectory analysis product generation

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline AND 5+ years of professional experience
  • Experience with orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation
  • Experience with the software languages Python or C++

Skills

Required:Trajectory analysisOrbital mechanicsPythonC++
Nice to have:Communication
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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