New Graduate Engineer, Launch & Test (Starship)

Responsibilities

• Support the design, analysis, and development of Starship launch mount, tower, and test infrastructure
• Perform structural, thermal, and fluids analysis to evaluate and optimize hardware designs
• Contribute to fluid systems that handle cryogens and high-pressure gases for testing and launch operations
• Collaborate with vehicle, software, and operations teams to ensure systems integrate and perform reliably
• Participate in design reviews and help translate requirements into manufacturable hardware
• Work hands-on with technicians to build, activate, and troubleshoot systems in a fast-paced environment
• Auxiliary in test planning, real-time operations support, and post-test data review
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, reduce turnaround time, and increase launch rate
• Drive rapid iteration by applying engineering fundamentals to solve complex, real-world problems

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduating with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD in 2026 or 2027
• Degree in an engineering discipline or physics
• 1+ years of mechanical or fluids design, analysis, or build experience via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong ability to use data and analysis to make fast data-driven decisions
• Ability to perform trade studies and make clear recommendations using first principles and engineering fundamentals even with partial information
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals
• Experience working at a nimble engineering organization or in a highly technical position that required a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner to accomplish tasks with tight time or budget constraints
• Excelled in ultra-competitive environments (achieved podium finish in engineering, math, or science competitions, achieved scores in the top percentile of scholastic or standardized tests, or demonstrated other incredible feats of intellectual achievement)
• Experience building hardware or have a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world
• Succeeded in multiple endeavors at once; maybe you worked through college, were a student athlete, or demonstrated strong work or academic performance in multiple fields
• Demonstrated rapid growth, you’ve held successive positions of increasing responsibility within an organization, were able to get yourself up to speed at a heroic pace, and accomplished something meaningfully difficult early in your career
• Demonstrated resilience and the ability to overcome failure or extreme odds - critics may say that our goals are impossible but this isn’t the first time we’ve proven that highly improbable goals like reusable rockets can become possible