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Fire Protection Engineer

SpaceX· Facilities - Hawthorne
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $160kPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Fire Protection Engineer for SpaceX HQ construction team in Hawthorne, CA, focusing on designing, building, and maintaining fire protection and life safety systems for manufacturing facilities and launch/production sites.

Responsibilities

  • Support engineering design, analysis, calculations and specifications for facility infrastructure fire and life safety systems
  • Develop building and fire code compliance documents and fire life safety designs for SpaceX launch and production facilities
  • Perform hazardous material analysis for code compliances purposes, such as chemical classification, chemical quantity analysis, chemical inventory management, and related system design support
  • Support facility construction teams to develop field solutions
  • Support commissioning activities during pre-test and AHJ testing phases for launch site facility builds
  • Conduct fire/life safety code reviews and analyses
  • Prepare and present technical reports and presentations
  • Review and comment on shop drawing design packages developed by contractors
  • Develop AM&M (Alternate Means & Methods) to local AHJ to help with performance-based design criteria to meet intent of code

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience in the design and construction of fire protection systems and/or fire protection consulting

Skills

Required:Engineering degreeFire protection design
Nice to have:Building & Fire Codes / NFPAP.E. LicenseNICET certificationOSHA complianceFDS modelingAutodesk Revit

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
  • potential discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation and holidays
  • paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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