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Propulsion Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Ship Prop Systems Engineering
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Propulsion Systems Engineer responsible for developing fluid systems for Starship and Super Heavy, including sizing, design, analysis, and manufacturing of fluid systems such as high-pressure gas storage, cryogenic fluid management, attitude control, and thermal control.

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

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering or engineering physics
  • 1+ years of mechanical or fluids design, analysis, or build experience (student project team and internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Fluid systems sizingConceptual and detailed hardware designStructural analysisFlight hardware build and production planningDevelopment, qualification, and acceptance testing
Nice to have:Design for manufacturabilityGD&TFEA softwareCAD (Siemens NX or similar)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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