Owns the mechanical hardware commodity (fasteners, dynamic hardware, fluid fittings) for Starship end-to-end: qualifies suppliers, validates manufacturing processes (cold heading, heat treat, coatings), drives PPAP/FAIR, root-causes defects, and travels to supplier sites up to 75% to ensure quality and rate production.
Technical Translator providing Mandarin-English interpretation and translation for SpaceX manufacturing equipment installation, commissioning, and production operations, while managing a team of translators.
Designs, builds, and scales test equipment and automation for wire harness production on Starship vehicles, ensuring defect-free harnesses for extreme reuse and rapid flight cadence. Works across electrical, mechanical, and software domains to develop test racks, validate test methods, and drive root-cause analysis.
Test Engineer in SpaceX's Avionics Test Lab responsible for environmental stress and functional screening of flight hardware (flight computers, power units, PCBs, FPGAs, comm systems) using Python automation, thermal/vibration testing, and collaboration with design and production teams to ensure hardware meets flight requirements.
Test Engineer for SpaceX's Starmind Compute Payload team, designing and implementing test processes for satellite compute hardware on electro-mechanical assembly lines, managing test infrastructure, and optimizing validation for on-orbit AI processing systems.
Test Engineer for SpaceX Dragon spacecraft: develop/execute test procedures for Crew/Cargo Dragon hardware, refurbish post-flight vehicles, act as test conductor, troubleshoot failures, build automation tools in Python/C++, work with high-pressure fluid/electrical systems and hypergolic propellants at Cape Canaveral.
Test Engineer responsible for qualifying electric thrusters for Starlink satellites through system-level test campaigns, operating vacuum facilities and DAQ systems (Beckhoff/TwinCat, Python), designing test stands, analyzing data, and collaborating with design engineers to improve propulsion hardware reliability.
Test Engineer at SpaceX's Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, TX, responsible for testing Falcon rocket hardware, developing test requirements, operating test stands, analyzing data (Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW), and ensuring flight readiness through rigorous test processes.
Test Engineer for Starship powertrain components, developing and executing test plans for Raptor engine propulsion hardware (high-pressure fluid systems, valves, turbomachinery), collaborating across electrical/mechanical/software teams to build automated test systems, and ensuring safety compliance.
A Test Engineer for Starship propulsion components develops test plans and campaigns, validates flight hardware, and ensures safety during hazardous testing of high-pressure fluid systems, valves, turbomachinery, and injectors. The role uses mechanical, fluid, and electrical engineering skills along with CAD and automated test systems.
Test Engineer for Starship development at SpaceX, responsible for designing and executing engine/component tests, operating test stands with National Instruments DAQ, handling hazardous fluids and high-pressure systems, and automating test operations in a fast-paced hands-on environment.
The person ensures satellite development test systems operate properly, builds and maintains hardware-in-the-loop test equipment, servers, and network racks, and fabricates cable harnesses for Starlink. Core technologies include Linux, Python, networking, and RF components.
Designs, builds, and maintains fluid and mechanical test-stand systems for rocket engines and vehicles at SpaceX's McGregor, TX facility, working hands-on with technicians on cryogenic, high-pressure, and structural systems for Starship, Raptor, Falcon, and Dragon hardware.
Designs, analyzes, tests, and manufactures life support and thermal control hardware for SpaceX's Crew Starship, including air distribution, water reclamation, waste management, fire suppression, and active thermal control systems, from early design through launch and operations.
Designs, builds, and integrates automated manufacturing systems for mass production of Starship heat shield tiles at SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, FL. Day-to-day work covers CAD modeling, fluid and mechanical system design, component specification, vendor coordination, and system activation alongside technician teams.
As a Thermal Mechanical Test Engineer for Starlink silicon packaging, you will develop and run thermal and mechanical finite element models and test campaigns, characterize package and board-level thermal performance, operate test equipment (thermal chambers, thermocouples, infrared cameras), and correlate simulations with physical data using Python or MATLAB to support high-volume Starlink hardwa
Designs high-precision die casting tooling and trim dies from concept through production release, collaborating with casting, materials, and manufacturing engineers to optimize gating, cooling, and dimensional stability. Uses Siemens NX and applies GD&T to support high-rate aluminum casting production.
As an RF/Wi-Fi Engineer on Starlink's Reliability team, the role performs telemetry and log analysis and hands-on debugging to root-cause failed customer hardware (dishes, routers, power supplies), builds and maintains custom tools and software to assess hardware performance and reliability, and supports internal betas and product launches. Core technologies include Wi-Fi/RF, Python/R, SQL, and ne
Ensures RF and WiFi compliance for Starlink satellite internet hardware by running pre-compliance and third-party certification testing against FCC, ISED, and ETSI standards, troubleshooting RF issues from board to system level, and automating radio test equipment with Python/C++.
Designs and improves Starlink Wi-Fi software and the end-to-end customer experience, driving the product roadmap, debugging kernel-level performance, and collaborating with RF and EE engineers. Works with C/C++, embedded networking, IEEE 802.11, TCP/IP, and Wi-Fi mesh systems.
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