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Design Criteria Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Build Reliability Engineering
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Hybrid (Starbase, TX)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Design Criteria Engineer for Starship responsible for ensuring hardware and operations meet requirements, acting as an agile systems engineering member across SpaceX programs and teams.

Responsibilities

  • Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams.
  • Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews; confirm acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
  • Drive the development of tools and methods to ensure accurate and well-disseminated design criteria.
  • Ensure a cohesive evolution of designs and operations across avionics, propulsion, structures, launch, manufacturing, analysis, and test teams.
  • Work with a team to perform rapid conceptual design, analysis, and testing cycles on development hardware (may include CAD modeling and testing oversight as needed).

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
  • 1+ years of experience with mechanical design, manufacturing, and/or analysis (internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Mechanical design
Nice to have:Fatigue, vibration, and thermal testingSolid modeling (Siemens NX)Finite element analysis (FEMAP)Stress analysis & simulationsScripting & data analysis (VB, MATLAB, Python, Excel)

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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