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Launch & Test Engineer, Fluids (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Pad Engineering - Cape
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Cape Canaveral, FLfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Launch & Test Engineer focused on fluids/cryogenic and high-pressure systems for SpaceX Starship, involving design, build, maintenance, and rapid iteration in a development-focused environment at Cape Canaveral.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze, design, and build systems that support critical rocket launches and testing
  • Cradle-to-grave project ownership through hosting design reviews, project decision justification, equipment procurement, and coordination and assistance of the construction of your ideas
  • Design modular hardware capable of being manufactured at volume for future launch sites across the world
  • Apply interdisciplinary engineering skills in fields of system-level process design and initial sizing, detailed pressurized fluid and thermal analysis, structural engineering, materials and component selection and cost/schedule optimization
  • Work directly with technicians and support groups to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly
  • Maintain a tight feedback loop with the launch operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines
  • Activate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve design objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtime
  • Hands-on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company launching rockets

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of hands-on build or design experience (internship, club, and competition team experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:Mechanical engineering fundamentalsFluid systems designProject ownership
Nice to have:Thermal analysisHands-on fabricationInstrumentation and data analysisCAD (NX)ASME piping & pressure vessel knowledgeCommunication
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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