Base Salary
$165k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve lumped-parameter thermofluid models of the Raptor engine.
- Conduct engine cycle analysis to guide future engine design and thrust upgrades.
- Use engine models and sparse instrumentation to resolve anomalies.
- Maintain the Raptor engine representation used in vehicle simulations, control-software validation, and flight Monte Carlo analysis.
- Develop tools and portals to analyze engine-performance variability and improve manufacturing and hardware design.
- Automate software processes for predicting test performance and generating flight-performance predictions for guidance, navigation, and control and flight software.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to improve tool interoperability and standardize hardware and software practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline.
- At least five years of experience writing computer software.
- At least five years of experience with physics-based simulations of real dynamic systems.
- Experience with dynamical systems modeling, lumped-parameter modeling, data-driven analysis, and inferring root causes from sparse measurements is preferred.
- Knowledge of compressible and incompressible flow, thermodynamics, thermochemistry, mechanics, and materials is preferred.
- Experience building data pipelines for sanitization, curation, visualization, and exploration of high-dimensional datasets is preferred.
- Experience with combustion engines or fluid-system simulation, control feedback loops, numerical analysis, signal processing, version control, continuous integration, and Unix-like operating systems is preferred.
- Full-stack web development experience and frontend experience with Angular, React, or a similar JavaScript framework are preferred.
- Backend development experience with Python, C#/.NET, C++, or Java is preferred.
- Experience implementing physics-informed neural networks for real-world engineering problems is preferred.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually
- Paid sick leave and various discounts and perks
- Potential eligibility for stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.