Loads & Dynamics Engineer (Starship)
SpaceX
Brownsville, Texas
Full-Time
Competitive
OfficeSenior
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
The Starship Dynamics team is responsible for all dynamic and vibration analyses on the Starship, Super Heavy and HLS vehicles and works closely with Starship Responsible Engineers to drive hardware and mission design decisions. To that end, the team is responsible for a wide range of dynamics engineering disciplines, broken down into several sub-teams, all of which are accepting applications.
The Multibody Dynamics team solves rigid body dynamics problems such as mechanism and kinematics, vehicle landing/catch and payload deployment. The Loads team is responsible for the structural loads and dynamics of the primary structure and payloads. This includes Coupled Loads Analysis (CLA), modal analysis and testing, integrated analysis and tool development, and flight/test operations support. The Environments team is the experts in vibration and aeroacoustics. This includes vibration and shock level derivations and testing, predicting and measuring vibroacoustic loads due to aeroacoustic environments (acoustics, buffet, over pressure, unsteady flow) as well as engine dynamics. The Fluid Transients team predicts unsteady and modal fluid dynamics for understanding of waterhammer, pogo and cavitation dynamics.
Dynamics engineers are expected to have a strong intuition of dynamic systems and a good understanding of a broad range of engineering disciplines, in addition to having solid software and analytical skills. You do not need to meet 100% of the preferred qualifications to be considered. We encourage anyone who meets the basic qualifications and is interested in the role to apply. We are looking for curious, enthusiastic and dedicated people to join our team, and we want the opportunity to talk to you!
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