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Mechanical Engineer – Gateway Ground Stations – Starlink
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | Bastrop, TX, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar STEM discipline
- 1+ year of experience working on hardware focused controls, electrical, or mechanical engineering projects (including student engineering projects or internship experience)
Responsibilities
- Diagnose performance and reliability issues through telemetry, testing, and hands-on debugging
- Develop fixes, prove them out in the field, and train our field specialists in the procedures
- Build software solutions to monitor gateway and site health and to improve hardware autonomy
- Work across teams to eliminate failure modes through hardware, software, and operations changes
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, communicate effectively, and work both independently and within a team
- Experience with hands-on troubleshooting and debugging of mechanical or electrical hardware
- Experience with the design and analysis of closed loop control systems
- Experience with the design and troubleshooting of PCBAs
- Mechanical design experience
- Hands-on hardware testing, prototyping, qualification, or production
- Experience applying quality tools such as design of experiments, statistical process control, root cause analysis and corrective action, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and various problem-solving approaches to difficult real-world problems
- Proficiency with programming and automation/scripting languages (Python, C, C++, SQL)
- Experience with business reporting software (Tableau, Periscope, PowerBI, etc.)
- Fluency with languages in addition to English
