Electric Propulsion Engineer, Mechanical (Starshield)

<div class="content-intro"><p>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&nbsp;enabling human life on Mars.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">ELECTRIC PROPULSION ENGINEER, MECHANICAL&nbsp;(STARSHIELD)</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Starshield&nbsp;leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use,&nbsp;Starshield&nbsp;is designed for government use, with&nbsp;an initial&nbsp;focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.</span>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><span data-contrast="auto">SpaceX is hiring an Electric Propulsion Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team working on design, analysis, build, and test of flight-qualified satellite electric propulsion systems for in-space constellations. In this role you will contribute end-to-end hardware ownership—from design through production support and qualification—for propulsion systems that must meet demanding flight reliability requirements through iterative design, test, and refinement.</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">RESPONSIBILITIES:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Design, analyze, test, and provide operational support for high-volume production spacecraft&nbsp;electric&nbsp;propulsion hardware</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Partner with manufacturing to ensure designs enable efficient, reliable, high-rate production</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Design, build,&nbsp;modify, operate, and troubleshoot electric propulsion test facilities, including vacuum chambers,&nbsp;pressure systems,&nbsp;cryogenic pumps, data acquisition and control systems, and associated instrumentation</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Analyze and review test data&nbsp;with&nbsp;numerical&nbsp;tools to confirm hardware is&nbsp;operating&nbsp;as expected and inform design decisions</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Lead root-cause investigations and&nbsp;component&nbsp;redesigns to improve reliability and/or production rates</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Develop and execute qualification test plans for flight readiness (vibration, shock, thermal cycle, life cycle, fault injection)</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Make rigorous, risk-informed trades across cost, lead time, reliability, and performance to meet&nbsp;program reliability targets for mission-critical flight hardware</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Own critical spaceflight hardware end-to-end, with support from manufacturing, reliability, test, and operations&nbsp;teams</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Work&nbsp;as&nbsp;an integrated