Sr. Mechanical Engineer
Job description
About the role
About the role Join the Starbase team to advance the Starship project and support the goal of making human life multi-planetary. You will own the design and fabrication of flight hardware, including propellant tanks and primary structures, while working directly on the production floor. Key facts
Location: USA
Engagement: Full-time
Team: Starship What you'll do
Create structural design concepts and size vehicle components based on flight load requirements.
Produce CAD models in NX for vehicle integration and subassemblies. The listing location is Starbase, TX.
Key facts
What you'll do
- Create structural design concepts and size vehicle components based on flight load requirements.
- Produce CAD models in NX for vehicle integration and subassemblies.
- Use finite element modeling to verify structural integrity.
- Perform rapid design iterations using empirical formulas and hand calculations.
- Validate designs through development articles and structural testing of airframe sections.
- Coordinate with build engineers and technicians to oversee hardware assembly.
- Balance vehicle mass, cost, and performance through cross-functional collaboration.
- Bachelor degree in an engineering field.
- + years of professional mechanical design and analysis experience.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Physical capability to work at heights up to 500 feet, in confined spaces, and while wearing an air-purifying respirator.
- Ability to perform physical tasks including lifting up to 25 pounds, pushing or pulling up to 50 pounds, and standing or walking for up to 3 hours daily.
Requirements
- Key facts
Location: Starbase, TX
Engagement: Full-time
Team: Starship What you'll do
Create structural design concepts and size vehicle components based on flight load requirements.
- Requirements
- Bachelor degree in an engineering field.
- 5+ years of professional mechanical design and analysis experience.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Nice to have
- Experience in the design, build, and testing of high-performance mechanical systems.
- Background in executing qualification testing.
- Experience with scientific or analytical programming in Python or Matlab.
- Skills & tools
- NX CAD
- FEA (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS)
- Python
- Matlab
- Excel
- Sheet metal design and fabrication Practical notes Candidates may be required to complete a pre-employment physical or medical history review to confirm the ability to meet physical job requirements.
About SpaceX
Based in Starbase, Texas, a company pursues work in spaceflight, telecom, and artificial intelligence. A unit handles rocket launches, leading yearly orbital counts beyond other national and commercial teams. Another unit runs Starlink, a satellite communications firm. A third area, through SpaceXAI, advances Grok and AI integration with X, while managing data center operations. Roles often cross these paths. Candidates with engineering, software, or operations backgrounds may find chances to join projects that span launch, connectivity, and machine learning efforts in this Texas-based enterprise.
Building software is iterative. You ship a slice, measure it, and correct course. Code review, pairing, and written design notes are how teams keep quality from depending on one person. The What you will do section is limited to this posting. The paragraphs here describe the craft, not extra assignments invented for length.
About the location
The posting places this role in Starbase, TX. Local hiring markets vary in interview pace and compensation bands. Location copy is here so readers understand the geography attached to the title.
Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job, not an extra. The duties above are the ones this listing actually states for this opening.