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Fire Protection Engineer

SpaceX· Texas - Construction Projects
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Bastrop, TXPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Fire protection engineering role focusing on design support, life safety, code compliance, hazard analysis, and field implementation for SpaceX facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Support engineering design, analysis, calculations and specifications for facility fire and life safety systems
  • Develop building and fire code compliance documents and fire life safety designs for SpaceX facilities
  • Develop AM&M (Alternate Means & Methods) to local AHJ to help with performance-based design criteria to meet intent of code
  • Perform hazardous material analysis for code compliances purposes, such as chemical classification, chemical maximum allowable 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

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Fire protection/Life safety design
Nice to have:Building & Fire CodesProfessional Engineer License (P.E.)NICET certificationProject leadershipOSHA complianceFire & Smoke modelingConstruction AdministrationAutodesk Revit
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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