Lead and develop a team of high talent mechanical engineers focused on aircraft mechanisms and actuation systems for the X-BAT VTOL military UAV platform.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of high talent mechanical engineers, from new grad to Principal, focused on aircraft mechanisms and actuation systems
Support your team as a technical resource for end-to-end design of mechanisms including doors, uplocks/downlocks, landing gear, actuation integration, nozzle/propulsion actuation mechanisms, and hydraulics
Set the quality bar for mechanisms engineering: sizing, tolerances, margins, drawings/MBD, materials/process selection, and verification evidence
Enable extreme ownership by ensuring engineers have clear goals, interfaces, resources, and decision rights
Drive effective cross-functional collaboration across systems, structures/loads, aero, propulsion, GNC, avionics, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test, flight test
Requirements
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent)
Nice to have: environmental and operational robustness (vibration/shock, thermal extremes, contamination, corrosion, sand/dust)
Nice to have: ground test and flight test campaigns
Nice to have: mechanism failure investigations
Nice to have: reliability and safety methods (DFMEA/FTA, fault containment, safe-state thinking)
Reliability Modeling Engineer responsible for owning the reliability model and failure‑prediction strategy for the V‑BAT unmanned aircraft system.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Build and maintain the V‑BAT system reliability model, predicting system‑level failure rate using failure‑rate data from the field and industry sources.
Create and maintain the V‑BAT system fault tree, identifying single points of failure and quantifying their contribution to overall system reliability.
Inform design decisions that eliminate single points of failure and improve the reliability of the system, providing Design‑for‑Reliability guidance in design reviews.
Partner with Design, Fleet Support, Quality, and Manufacturing Engineers on root cause investigations for field failures, and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.
Drive reliability test campaigns in production and sustainment to verify the system is meeting its reliability requirements and predictions, feeding results back into the model.
Requirements
Bachelor's in Engineering
Bachelor's in Mathematics
Bachelor's in Statistics
Nice to have: Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability modeling
Develop electrical architectures, one-lines, design criteria, specifications, and studies for generation plants and campus interconnections.
Design and review generator or alternator interfaces, transformers, MV and HV switchgear, protection, synchronization, grounding, station service, DC systems, and black-start capability.
Perform or review load flow, short circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, transient, motor-starting, grounding, and reliability studies.
Coordinate generation controls, microgrid or islanding behavior, utility interconnection, data center load characteristics, and operating modes.
Evaluate OEM and EPC proposals, equipment ratings, test plans, failure modes, maintenance strategies, and lifecycle tradeoffs.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field
Design and integrate power-generation and balance-of-plant systems for large AI data center campuses.
Responsibilities
Develop mechanical basis-of-design documents, process flow diagrams, P&IDs, specifications, calculations, and equipment requirements for power generation facilities.
Design and review prime-mover auxiliaries, fuel gas or liquid fuel systems, exhaust, ventilation, cooling, lubrication, compressed air, water treatment, and heat-recovery systems.
The role involves driving the design, analysis, or evaluation of material testing projects for commercial engine programs, including mechanical and environmental material testing.
Responsibilities
Drive the design, analysis, or evaluation of Material testing projects using sound engineering principles
Deliver support for commercial engines in service, including material testing of field events and shop findings
Provide necessary materials support for mechanical and environmental material testing requirements
Partner with design and systems organizations for investigations
Run and manage the program by drafting SOWs, providing test conditions, and performing data reduction
Requirements
Bachelors/ Master’s Degree in Metallurgy, Materials science, Materials engineering, manufacturing or closely related technical field
Nice to have: Aircraft engine component Material testing
Own hardware from conceptual design through high volume production and on-orbit operation for the Starlink constellation
Compensation
Pay Range:
Level 1: $100,000.00 - $135,000.00
Level 2: $115,000.00 - $165,000.00
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Responsibilities
Own hardware from conceptual design through high volume production and on-orbit operation for the Starlink constellation
Develop design criteria, collaborate on requirements, and drive system-level optimization
Rapidly iterate on designs and analysis to inform high level systems trades and steer overall product direction
Drive holistic DFM to create elegant designs with a focus on piece part and process count reductions, error proofing at every step of fabrication and integration, and consistent performance and production metrics
Establish an efficient product lifecycle starting in the supply chain all the way through final integration that balances cost, complexity, and quality; work closely with partner teams to design and realize an efficient in-house production line
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
Nice to have: Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline
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