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Trajectory Analysis Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship GNC
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Trajectory Analysis Engineer responsible for solving analysis challenges for Starship missions, including trajectory analysis, flight safety, and mission planning in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

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
  • 1+ years experience with orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation (via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience)
  • 1+ years experience with the software languages Python or C++ (via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience)

Skills

Required:orbital mechanicsPythonC++
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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