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New Graduate Engineer, Mechanical (Starship)

SpaceX· Booster Structures Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

New graduate mechanical engineer for Starship program, focused on designing, analyzing, and building hardware for Starship and Super Heavy. Roles include design, analysis, testing, manufacturing, and cross-functional collaboration across systems to enable multi-planetary capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and development of next generation launch vehicles, launch pad and production lines
  • Transform system requirements into hardware concepts and trade implementation and architecture options
  • Perform hand calculations and FEA to develop, assess, and optimize designs
  • Rapidly iterate on manufacturing processes and development testing in a fast-paced environment
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure hardware integrates with all Starship systems and supports necessary mission operations
  • Participate in design reviews internally and with suppliers and customers
  • Partner with engineering and production teams to generate ideas, designs, and improvements for current and next-generation vehicles
  • Own large business outcomes

Qualifications

  • Graduating with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD in 2027
  • Degree in an engineering discipline or physics
  • 1+ years of mechanical or fluids design, analysis, or build experience via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience

Skills

Nice to have:Data-driven decision makingTrade studies and first principles reasoningExperience in nimble engineering or entrepreneurial environmentAcademic excellence and competitionsHardware developmentmultitasking and resilience

Benefits

  • Not specified in the job description
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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