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New Graduate Engineer, Propulsion (Starship)

SpaceX· Ship Prop Systems Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Entry-level Propulsion Engineer role focused on developing fluid systems for Starship and Super Heavy, including sizing, design, analysis, and manufacturing support across high-pressure gas storage, cryogenic management, attitude control, and thermal control systems.

Responsibilities

  • Perform fluids system sizing analysis to determine basic system requirements
  • Transform system requirements into hardware concepts and trade implementation and architecture options
  • Design a range of pressurized and unpressurized structures and parts to enable system capability, creating original CAD models and prints
  • Perform structural analysis of parts and components to ensure survivability
  • Execute design for manufacturability changes to enhance production efficiency
  • Drive the first builds of flight hardware and work with a manufacturing team to establish a production line
  • Coordinate and execute development, qualification, and acceptance testing of flight hardware
  • 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

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

Required:Fluid systems sizingConceptual hardware designCAD modeling (NX or similar)Structural analysis
Nice to have:Design for manufacturability
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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