SpaceX
Dynamics Engineer (Starship)
Starbase, TX +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Starbase, TX
Brownsville, TX, United States - Experience
- 1+ years of experience with structural or fluid dynamics; full-time employment, outside-the-classroom projects, or lab work count.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State, to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.
About the job
Analyzes Starship and HLS vehicle dynamics, predicts system responses, and qualifies hardware through analysis, testing, and flight data.
What you'll do
- Resolve dynamics problems using analysis, testing, and flight data; build finite element and lumped element models.
- Plan and execute dynamic tests, from pre-test analysis and sensor installation through data analysis, signal processing, and model correlation.
- Lead system-level analysis and drive hardware modifications or vehicle operations; perform analyses with commercial and in-house codes and write new code.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
- Experience with structural or fluid dynamics through full-time employment, outside-the-classroom projects, or lab work.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience analyzing data or building hardware; experience with vibration, shock, or modal testing.
- Experience with frequency-based or time-history vibration analysis, data processing in Python and MATLAB, ordinary differential equations, or relevant turbomachinery, combustion, fluid-system, structural-fluid coupling, or structural-analysis topics.
Tools
Python, MATLAB
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