Design Criteria Engineer; Starship

DESIGN CRITERIA ENGINEER (STARSHIP)

Space

X was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today Space

X is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

• 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 the different technical teams: avionics, propulsion, structures, launch, manufacturing, analysis, and test.
• 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).
• Derive hardware capabilities enabling operational adaptability while staying within hardware limits.

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

• Experience with aerospace structure systems: design, analysis, testing, and fabrication for use in high-performance or safety critical applications.
• Experience with fatigue, vibration, and thermal testing of mechanical assemblies.
• Hands-on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes, including mills, lathes, electronics assembly, compositeals layup, etc.
• Experience with material selection and make vs. buy decisions for system components.
• Experience with solid modeling (Siemens NX) and finite element analysis software (FEMAP).)
• Experience performing closed-form and numerical stress
  
  Gig analysis, simulations of dynamic systems, and fluidភ—analysis.
• Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, and Excel.

• Must be willing to work long hours and weekends as needed.

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
  * 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.
  * 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Space

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