New Graduate Engineer, Mechanical (Starshield)
SpaceX · Hawthorne, Canada
About this role
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p><strong>NEW GRADUATE ENGINEER, MECHANICAL (STARSHIELD)</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Our SpaceX team is working on the toughest and most audacious projects on our planet: making humanity multiplanetary. As a Mechanical Engineer on the SpaceX team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle
You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems. Every day, we push the limits of what is possible through innovation, determination, and teamwork to drive the mission to success.</span></p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Own hardware and mechanisms from conceptual design through volume production and on-orbit operations to support various customers’ needs </li> <li>Develop design criteria, collaborate on requirements, and drive system-level optimization</li> <li>Rapidly iterate on designs and analysis to inform high-level systems trades and steer overall product direction</li> <li>Drive holistic DFM to create elegant designs with a focus on piece part and process count reductions, error-proofing at every step of fabrication and integration, and consistent performance and production metrics</li> <li>Establish an efficient product lifecycle starting in the supply chain through final integration that balances cost, complex
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