SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, a16z and Founders Fund.
About the role
SpaceX is hiring an Electric Propulsion Engineer (avionics focus) to join a collaborative engineering team working on design, analysis, build, and test of high-volume, flight-qualified satellite electric propulsion systems. In this role you will contribute end-to-end hardware ownership of propulsion power-processing and control electronics—from design through production support and qualification—for hardware that must meet flight reliability requirements.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, aerospace, physics, mechanical, or other engineering discipline preferred
- An active clearance may provide the opportunity to work on sensitive SpaceX missions, if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- This role is primarily on-site to support hands-on test facility and hardware work (location per posting)
More about this role
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SpaceX is hiring an Electric Propulsion Engineer (avionics focus) to join a collaborative engineering team working on design, analysis, build, and test of high-volume, flight-qualified satellite electric propulsion systems. In this role you will contribute end-to-end hardware ownership of propulsion power-processing and control electronics—from design through production support and qualification—for hardware that must meet flight reliability requirements.
- Design, analyze, test, and provide operational support for high-volume production spacecraft electric propulsion avionics (power-processing and control...
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