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Mechanical Engineer – User Products – Starshield
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | West Athens, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or STEM discipline
- Experience with CAD or FEA software packages (can be in a professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby setting)
- 1+ years of experience with mechanical and/or electromechanical design and analysis (internship and extracurricular experience are applicable)
Responsibilities
- Own hardware from conceptual design through volume production and in-flight operations to support various customers’ needs
- Develop design criteria, collaborate on requirements, and drive system-level optimization
- Rapidly iterate on designs and analysis to inform high-level systems trades and steer overall product direction
- Drive holistic DFM to create elegant designs with a focus on piece part and process count reductions, error-proofing at every step of fabrication and integration, and consistent performance and production metrics
- Generate detailed production and integration drawings using GD&T and perform tolerance stack-up analysis
- Establish an efficient product lifecycle starting in the supply chain through final integration that balances cost, complexity, and quality; work closely with partner teams to design and realize an efficient in-house production line
- Perform environmental and performance testing on hardware to validate analysis and demonstrate compliance with design criteria
- Own product delivery timeline through conception, design, assembly, and launch
- Demonstrate extreme ownership of product outcomes at every stage of development and production
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline
- Ability and willingness to obtain a Top Secret clearance
- Solid understanding and application of GD&T
- Demonstrated ability to own hardware or systems within an integrated engineering team outside a classroom setting (FSAE, Engineers without Borders, Student Directed Research, Design-Build-Fly, NASA student launch, personal entrepreneurial ventures, etc.)
- Demonstrated understanding of structural analysis and failure modes of complex mechanical systems
- Self-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills
- Proficient in 3D CAD (NX preferred)
