Principal Mechanical Engineer (starship)

SpaceX is hiring a Principal Mechanical Engineer for their Starship program in Starbase, Texas. This role involves designing and building flight hardware such as propellant tanks, integration interfaces, and primary structures. Responsibilities include developing design concepts, creating CAD models, performing finite element analysis, and validating designs through testing and collaboration with production teams.

Skills and focus areas

• mechanical engineering
• design for manufacturability
• sheet metal fabrication
• subassembly design
• flight loads analysis
• cad modeling
• finite element analysis
• structural analysis
• hand calculations
• empirical formulas
• structural testing
• collaboration