Integration & Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind) Verified today
Integration and Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)
SpaceX is developing Starmind, a new constellation of satellites capturing solar energy in space to power low-cost, high-performance AI compute for Earth. This demands highly reliable electrical compute hardware, solar power systems, thermal radiators, and more, all operating in space's extreme environment while delivering connectivity, control, power distribution, and processing for orbital AI inference.
The Starmind team designs, builds, and operates the orbital compute fabric of the future. As an Integration & Test Engineer, you'll have ownership over the entire manufacturing line for the hardware that enables advanced on-orbit AI processing. Your work spans assembly, integration, and testing of industry-leading compute electronics, memory, and networking to achieve required domain sizes and processing workloads.
Responsibilities
- Manage physical infrastructure of test integration and operations
- Perform mechanical design of infrastructure and tooling for test integration and operations
- Evaluate proposed designs for manufacturability and integration
- Interface with engineers, specialists, and technicians to optimize testing operations
- Integrate new vehicles into new and existing infrastructure
- Enable day-to-day execution of vehicle integration and test flow
- Evaluate non-conformances, determine root cause, and create actionable system improvements
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 1+ years of design and/or hands-on manufacturing experience (internships and project experience are applicable)
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Master's degree in an engineering discipline
- Experience with MATLAB, Python, or another programming language
- Experience with integration and testing of propulsion, thermal, electrical, and/or structural systems
- Experience integrating avionics systems
- Proficiency in NX, CATIA, SolidWorks, or industry standard CAD design tools
- Experience writing test plans, procedures, and providing go/no-go judgment and rationale
- Experience in a production environment
- Documentation and configuration management experience
- Demonstrated engineering intuition, critical thinking, and comfort with ambiguity
Additional Requirements
- Some travel to other SpaceX sites may be required, up to 15%
- Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet mission-critical deadlines
- This position is very hands-on and requires you to be on your feet for extended periods, up to 4 hours at a time
- Will often work side by side with technicians and must be able to climb ladders, stoop, bend, crawl, and work in tight spaces
ITAR Requirement
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.