Full-Time
Test Equipment Engineer
Posted on 3/15/2023
Manufactures advanced rockets and spacecrafts for space transportation
Compensation Overview
$95,000 - $130,000Annually
Junior, Mid
Brownsville, TX, USA
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering disciplines
- 1+ years of hands-on build or design experience (experience from internships, clubs or other engineering activities qualifies)
- Ability to work independently and in a team, take initiative, and communicate effectively
- Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities while maintaining a high sense of urgency in a high-paced, challenging work environment
- Willingness to perform other related duties for the purpose of ensuring an efficient and effective work environment
- Experience with quick-thinking and problem solving in stressful situations
- Good response to challenges posed by short deadlines
- Good fundamental intuition of fluid and/or structural/mechanical systems
- Creativity to imagine and design for reliability, efficiency, and maintainability from scratch
- Instrumentation, testing, data review and analysis, verification against a model
- 3+ years of mechanical design experience in an industrial setting or equivalent
- Experience with high pressure and cryogenic fluid systems and components
- Experience producing drawings for welders and machine shop fabrication
- Collaborative team player, eager to find the best solution while balancing cost and schedule
- Acute attention to detail, ability to see interactions with other systems to avoid problems
- Intermediate skill level using CAD (NX a plus)
- ASME piping and pressure vessel design experience
- Creative and passionate approach to addressing opportunities and challenges, and an enthusiastic, self-motivated, positive can-do attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to respond to emergencies to support priority projects, missions, and launches
- Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed; flexibility is required
- Able to work in extreme outdoor environments when needed - heat, cold, wind, rain, etc
- Able to work in an environment requiring exposure to fumes, odors, and noise
- Working conditions may be in tight quarters and physical dexterity is required
- Ability to perform job duties that require standing, kneeling, crouching, twisting upper body, working in cramped positions in small openings, and climbing hand over hand
- Able to lift heavy objects up to 25 lbs unassisted
- Ability to work on ladders, lifts, and at elevated heights (up to 300 feet) with proper PPE
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here
- Analyze, design, and build of systems that support critical rocket engine and component 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
- Work directly with technicians to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly
- Maintain a tight feedback loop with the test operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight testing deadlines
- Operate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve testing objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtimes
- Independently evaluates complex problems and arrives to solutions to seemingly impractical problems that best support the test program and achieving company objectives
- Hands-on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company testing rocket engines every single day
- General hands-on experience; machining, welding, and other fabrication techniques is a plus
- Ability to verify designs with simplified hand calculations; experience in FEA or CFD is a plus
SpaceX, under the leadership of Elon Musk, has consistently demonstrated its technical prowess and industry leadership by achieving milestones previously accomplished only by governments, such as returning a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit and attaching a spacecraft to the International Space Station. The company's culture is driven by a clear and ambitious goal to make life multiplanetary, fostering an environment of high performance and continuous learning. With its advanced rocket and spacecraft designs, SpaceX has a competitive edge in the space transportation industry, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA and working towards the future of space exploration.
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$9.2B
Headquarters
Hawthorne, California
Founded
2002
6 month growth
↑ 9%1 year growth
↑ 30%2 year growth
↑ 29%Benefits
Benefits and Perks - Our employees’ well-being is important to us and essential to our capacity to do extraordinary things. We offer a wide variety of programs to support the health, wellness, and financial security of our employees and their families.