Loads & Dynamics Engineer (Starship)

Job 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. LOADS & DYNAMICS ENGINEER (STARSHIP) The Starship Dynamics team is responsible for all dynamic and vibration analyses on the Starship, Super Heavy and HLS vehicles and works closely with Starship Responsible Engineers to drive hardware and mission design decisions. To that end, the team is responsible for a wide range of dynamics engineering disciplines, broken down into several sub-teams, all of which are accepting applications. The Multibody Dynamics team solves rigid body dynamics problems such as mechanism and kinematics, vehicle landing/catch and payload deployment. The Loads team is responsible for the structural loads and dynamics of the primary structure and payloads. This includes Coupled Loads Analysis (CLA), modal analysis and testing, integrated analysis and tool development, and flight/test operations support. The Environments team is the experts in vibration and aeroacoustics. This includes v...