Full Description

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. INTEGRATION & TEST ENGINEER (DRAGON) Integration and Test engineers are responsible for understanding every system on the Dragon 2 spacecraft and how they are interconnected. Engineers on this team must have working knowledge of overall vehicle design, schematics, operations, manufacturing, testing, and flight. A successful Integration and Test engineer demonstrates engineering intuition and critical thinking, and is comfortable working under ambiguous or unclear requirements with minimal oversight. Combining these skills, these engineers face challenges across a wide variety of work centers at the company, and the team is frequently asked to tackle new, inter-departmental development projects. The ultimate goal of the Integration and Test team is to ensure that the Dragon 2 spacecraft interfaces successfully with the International Space Station, which is vital to the on-board astronaut crew and their missions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design high-level vehicle assembly architecture
• Manage vehicle integration build flow and test operations
• Evaluate proposed designs for manufacturability and integration
• Interface with both engineers and technicians to optimize manufacturing and automation
• Develop and refine manufacturing assembly procedures based on lessons learned
• Enable day-to-day execution of the vehicle integration and test flow
• Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create actionable items and system improvements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other engineering discipline
• 1+ years of engineering experience in manufacturing, design, test, or development (internship and project team experience is applicable)

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline
• 1+ years of experience with CAD software packages (internship and extracurricular experience is applicable)
• Experience with integration and testing of propulsion, thermal, electrical and/or structural systems
• Documentation and configuration management experience
• Experience writing test plans, procedures and providing go/no-go judgment and rationale
• Experience in a production environment
• Demonstrated engineering intuition, critical thinking, comfort with ambiguity

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS