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Design Criteria Engineer (Falcon & Dragon)

SpaceX· Falcon Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $160kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Design Criteria Engineer responsible for ensuring flight hardware and operations meet design requirements, guiding designs from concept to flight, and facilitating cross-disciplinary problem solving across SpaceX programs for Falcon and Dragon systems.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the SpaceX design process and design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and recovery systems
  • Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns
  • Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches for new systems
  • Setup new processes to enable reliable aircraft-like operations of launch vehicles and spacecraft
  • Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams
  • Review vehicle changes to ensure all hardware and operations are qualified
  • Develop specialized design and analysis tools for other engineering groups

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of professional experience in a hardware engineering role
  • Master's degree in an engineering discipline (preferred)

Skills

Required:Engineering design criteriaDesign reviewsHardware integrationVerification & testing
Nice to have:Tools for design/analysis

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards)
  • Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave as per company policy
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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