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.
AVIONICS SYSTEMS ENGINEER (CREW STARSHIP)
Become a part of the Crew Starship Avionics team and support the mission to revolutionize orbital flight and space travel - opening access for humankind to establish new frontiers in space, and ultimately make humans a multi-planetary species.
The Crew Starship Avionics team has taken the challenge to develop avionics for the SpaceX Human Landing System, which will soon carry astronauts to the moon as part of NASAs Artemis program. Across all systems, from communications, to power, to life support, to navigation, and even creature comforts, our teams hardware will safely support astronauts on their lunar mission, while humanity looks on. This will be one of the most sophisticated and largest crewed vehicles flown in space, and will be developed at a cost and rate previously considered unthinkable in the space industry. Become a part of this fast moving and world class development team, working with super smart and motivated engineers, and achieve truly audacious goals. If you’re ready for a challenge and would like to help take humanity back to the moon then you’ve come to the right place!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as responsible engineer for avionics vehicles systems, across design, integration, test, and launch of vehicles
- Define detailed system design, including system interconnect schematics, consumable budgets, harness and channel capabilities, fault tolerance, reliability, hardware manifest, vehicle risk, and configuration change management
- Work collaboratively with customers and experts from other teams to perform system trades, define vehicle architecture, and scope new designs as they move from concept, through prototype, and into production
- Analyze and track key performance metrics for avionics systems from concept to the field, and assess new designs to optimize manufacturability, quality, and cost
- Work with avionics production to triage, troubleshoot, root cause, and repair issues from initial integration through critical pad operations
- Act as the system lead for projects including creating, maintaining, and communicating development schedules
- Directly support NASA with deliverables for Crew Starship milestones
- Support vehicle pad and flight operations as Avionics specialist responsible for evaluating vehicle health, resolving issues real time, and recommending path forward
- Verify test coverage and flight readiness for avionics system hardware, and validate as-built vehicles are “GO for launch”
