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New Graduate Engineer, Infrastructure

SpaceX· Launch Infrastructure - Starbase
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

New Graduate Mechanical Engineer to support infrastructure behind power generation and supercompute at SpaceX Starbase. From concept through design, fabrication, construction, and commissioning across power generation, fluids and cooling, and supporting structures and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop design concepts and help size infrastructure systems based on operational loads, site conditions, and how the facility will actually run
  • Collaborate with peers across disciplines to develop designs that balance cost, schedule, reliability, and capability
  • Create detailed designs and generate CAD models and prints for components, assemblies, and integration into the larger site
  • Build analysis models to assess designs and confirm they meet the needs of the system
  • Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on designs rapidly
  • Support validation through development hardware, mockups, or first articles, and testing of critical joints, components, and design elements
  • Support testing and commissioning of subsystems and full installations
  • Partner with construction, build engineers, and technicians to improve designs and resolve issues found during build and installation
  • Support installation of hardware in the field, witness designs being built and brought online, and see them go into service
  • Participate in design reviews and help move designs from development into installed hardware

Qualifications

  • Graduating with a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027
  • Degree in an engineering discipline or physics
  • 1+ years of mechanical design, analysis, build, or test experience via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience

Skills

Required:Mechanical designCADHand calculations / numerical analysis
Nice to have:Analysis software

Benefits

  • Note: Benefits not listed in the description. Please refer to SpaceX standard offerings for New Graduate roles.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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