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Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Avionics Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead a team of mechanical engineers within SpaceX's Starship avionics mechanical group, focusing on designing highly producible mechanical packaging for avionics that protect electronics in harsh launch vehicle environments, while partnering with Starship engineering and production teams to improve design and manufacturability for current and next-generation vehicles.

Responsibilities

  • Extreme ownership of avionics engineers to enable the rapid progress of design, integration, test, and launch activities
  • Drive conceptual design, architecture trades, and first order sizing
  • Develop design requirements where definition is lacking
  • Optimize the development speed, mass, and cost on our avionics
  • Perform in depth first principles analysis and FEA to assess and optimize designs
  • Incorporate design for manufacturing principles, drive first article builds, and make improvements necessary to hand off subsequent builds to production
  • Support production issues and drive design, process, and procedure improvements for maximum production efficiency and rate after first article build
  • Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing
  • Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch
  • Work closely with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize designs for rapid manufacturability

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline
  • 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies

Skills

Required:Leadership experience
Nice to have:Creative problem solvingFast-paced autonomous workCommunication and documentationGeometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)Hand calculations, FEA, CAD
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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