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Development Test Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Engineering Bastrop - Dev Ops
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Starlink Development Test is an R&D-focused group within SpaceX that designs, fabricates, and tests next-generation Starlink hardware to reduce development time and increase reliability. This role involves creating test stands, designing structures and systems, supervising integration, operating test stands with high attention to detail, and driving hardware test campaigns from requirements to closure.

Responsibilities

  • Create test stand concepts, fabrication drawings, wiring schematics, and instrumentation lists
  • Design and analyze structures, fluid systems, and mechanisms
  • Supervise the integration of test stands including fabrication, mechanical assembly and data/control systems
  • Operate test stands with great attention to detail (tests have very little margin for error)
  • Develop test requirements with the flight engineering team, develop a design solution that meets or exceeds those requirements, and drive the campaign to closure

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
  • 1+ years of experience in one or more of the following: extracurricular project team designing/building mechanical structures/high-pressure systems, academic research on mechanical structures, or professional experience designing/analyzing mechanical structures

Skills

Required:Mechanical design and analysisTest stand design and fabricationWiring schematics and instrumentation
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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