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Thermal Control and Life Support Hardware Engineer (Crew Starship)
SpaceX is developing Crew Starship (the Human Landing System) to return humans to the Moon and enable permanent communities on the Moon, Mars and beyond. This team develops the hardware to maintain environmental and thermal control and support life onboard Starship spacecraft.
What you will do
- Own the conceptualization, design, and build of creative life support and thermal control systems for all Crew Starship missions, including Mars missions, across disciplines such as fans and air distribution, air sanitation, water collection and reclamation, waste management, fire suppression, and active thermal control
- Rapidly iterate on manufacturing processes and development testing in a fast-paced environment
- Be responsible for project delivery timeline from early design through production, launch, and sustained operations
- Lead design reviews internally and externally with suppliers and customers
- Work with interdisciplinary teams to ensure components integrate with avionics, software, mission operations, and other systems
- Ensure designs are manufacturable and reliable
- Exemplify technical excellence and be accountable for your own work
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
- 1+ years of experience working with fluid systems, mechanical systems, environmental control systems, or components (internship and project team experience is applicable)
Preferred skills and experience
- Ability to perform trade studies using first principles and engineering fundamentals to make clear recommendations even with partial information
- Experience with rotating machinery
- Experience with NX
- Solid understanding and application of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack-up analysis
- Experience with structural analysis methods (hand calcs, ABAQUS, ANSYS) to optimize hardware to strength requirements and evaluate for life and fracture
- Knowledge of metallic and fluid system manufacturing techniques, processes, equipment such as machining, welding, brazing, tube bending, etc.
- Experience with selection of materials considering engineering properties, manufacturing, and fluid compatibility
- Ability to work well in an integrated collaborative team environment with frequent interactions with technicians, engineers, and managers
- Highly self-motivated with strong organizational and written/oral communication skills
- Master's degree in engineering discipline (preferred)
Additional requirements
- Must be willing to work long hours and weekends as needed to support critical milestones
- Ability to pass Air Force background checks for Cape Canaveral
- 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 the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State