Launch Engineer, Stage 0 Propellant Generation (Starship)

SpaceX
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 2+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Teamwork","Communication","Problem-solving","Initiative","Flexibility"]

Launch Engineer to design, build, and optimize cryogenic propellant processing and generation systems forStarship launch sites. You’ll own multi-disciplinary system design from concept through fabrication, work with technicians to implement solutions, and coordinate with operations to meet tight deadlines while ensuring reliability, maintainability, and safety in high-pressure cryogenic environments.

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Launch Engineer, Stage 0 Propellant Generation (Starship)

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Job Summary

Launch Engineer to design, build, and optimize cryogenic propellant processing and generation systems forStarship launch sites. You’ll own multi-disciplinary system design from concept through fabrication, work with technicians to implement solutions, and coordinate with operations to meet tight deadlines while ensuring reliability, maintainability, and safety in high-pressure cryogenic environments.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •Analyze, design, and build systems that support critical rocket launches and testing
  • •Cradle-to-grave project ownership through hosting design reviews, project decision justification, equipment procurement, and coordination and assistance of the construction of your ideas
  • •Apply interdisciplinary engineering skills in fields of system-level process design and initial sizing, detailed pressurized fluid and thermal analysis, structural engineering, materials and component selection and cost/schedule optimization
  • •Work directly with technicians and support groups to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly
  • •Maintain a tight feedback loop with operation and construction teams to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines
Travel: Low travel

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline
  • •1+ years of hands-on build or design experience (internship, club, and competition team experience qualifies)
  • •3+ years of mechanical, fluids, or thermal design experience in an industrial setting or equivalent
  • •Experience with high pressure and cryogenic fluid systems and components and operations
  • •Experience producing drawings for fabrication
Experience:2+ yearsAerospaceSpaceflight
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:TeamworkCommunicationProblem-solvingInitiativeFlexibility
Languages:English
Tech Stack:NXCADCFDFEAP&ID

Company Brief

SpaceX
Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers, aiming to reduce space transportation costs and enable human life on Mars through reusable launch vehicles and integrated space systems.
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States
Founded: 2002
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