Test Stand Design & Build Engineer – Structures/Fluid Systems
| Company | SpaceX |
|---|---|
| Location | McGregor, TX, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, or electrical engineering
- 1+ years of hands-on design or build experience (professional work, internships, clubs, or other engineering activities qualify)
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design, and build systems that support testing of fully integrated flight vehicles, individual rocket engines, and various rocket components
- Drive cradle-to-grave ownership of engineering projects through design reviews, decision justifications, equipment procurement, and coordination/participation in the construction of your ideas
- Work directly with skilled technicians to build your designs and fix real-world problems on the fly
- Maintain a tight feedback loop with the test operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight testing deadlines critical to company success
- Operate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve testing objectives, and apply lessons learned to iterate system designs for improved performance and maintenance
- Evaluate complex engineering needs and arrive at solutions to seemingly impractical problems that support test programs and achieve company objectives
- Take a hands-on approach to tackling rapidly-emerging field projects that keep the company testing rocket engines and vehicles every single day
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong fundamental understanding and intuition for fluid, structural, or mechanical systems
- Critical thinking and problem solving in stressful, dynamic situations
- Positive responses and outcomes to challenges posed by short deadlines
- Hands-on build—machining, welding, and other fabrication techniques are a plus
- Creativity to imagine and design for reliability, efficiency, and maintainability from scratch
- Driven approach to addressing challenges and opportunities—an enthusiastic, self-motivated, positive, can-do attitude
- Determining the best solution among several options, often balancing cost/schedule/complexity
- Acute attention to detail, and ability to see interactions with related systems to avoid problems
- Instrumentation and testing, data review and analysis, verification of models against reality
- High-pressure or cryogenic fluid systems and components
- Complex structural or mechanical systems and components
- Design verification with simplified hand calculations and complex modeling—FEA or CFD is a plus
- Production of fabrication drawings for parts to be machined or welded
- Intermediate skill level using CAD—Siemens NX is a plus
- ASME piping and pressure vessel design
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 3+ years of engineering design experience in an industrial setting or equivalent