Principal Mechanical Engineer (starship)
SpaceX- Location
- Remote
- Work mode
- Remote
- Type
- full time
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[ About this role ]
SpaceX is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer for their Starship program. This role involves designing and building flight hardware such as propellant tanks and structural subassemblies. 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
- design for manufacturability
- sheet metal design
- subassembly design
- fabrication
- vehicle structures
- flight loads
- mass optimization
- cost optimization
- cad modeling
- finite element analysis
- structural analysis
- hand calculations
Summary written by Ramai from the original posting. Full details and requirements are on SpaceX’s careers page.
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