New Graduate Engineer, Propulsion (Raptor)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Expect a dynamic role doing what you’re best at. Our team is building high performance flight hardware, a high-volume rocket engine production line, and a propulsion system that can rapidly and reliably power our rockets. Whatever your skill set, you’ll be aligned to the part of the program you’re most effectively able to contribute to.
• Own the design and development of next generation rocket engines, test stands, and production lines.
• Perform hand calculations and FEA to develop, assess, and optimize designs.
• Rapidly iterate on manufacturing processes and development testing in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure hardware integrates with all Raptor systems and supports necessary mission operations.
• Own large business outcomes and experience a rate of personal and professional growth that is unmatched literally anywhere else.
• Get a front row seat to witness an impossible idea manifest in real life. The next few years will be incredibly dynamic as we transition from the challenge of building hardware to actually flying reusable rockets to orbit.
• BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or physics.
• 1+ years of mechanical and/or fluids engineering experience via project team, research, internships, and/or professional experience.
• Graduating in the spring of 2026, summer of 2026 or Fall of 2026.
• PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
• Strong ability to use data and analysis to make fast data-driven decisions.
• Ability to perform trade studies and make clear recommendations using first principles and engineering fundamentals even with partial information. Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals.
• Experience working at a nimble engineering organization or in a highly technical position that required a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner to accomplish tasks with tight time or budget constraints.
• Excelled in ultra-competitive environments. You’ve nailed a podium finish in engineering, math, or science competitions, achieved scores in the top percentile of scholastic or standardized tests, or demonstrated other incredible feats of intellectual achievement.
• Experience building hardware or have a passion for contributing to a work product that operates in the real world.