Launch Engineer, Ground Support Equipment (Falcon)

• ◆Design, build, and activate equipment to support all aspects of launch site vehicle processing and launch, including structural, tooling/fixtures, fluids, and transport equipment
• ◆This team supports Stage 1, Stage 2, Fairing, launch site payload operations, from Dockside to Launch, with a focus on vehicle interface tooling for structural and fluid connections
• ◆This team also supports every flight inspection, refurbishment operations for all the umbilicals for pad operations
• ◆Use hand calculations, finite element analyses (FEA), and computer-aided designs (CAD) to ensure all hardware meets or exceeds internal and customer

• ✓Lead design reviews and activation testing
• ✓Serve as a technical interface to customers and suppliers
• ✓Monitor and participate in ground system build and test, hands-on in the field, alongside skilled technician teams
• ✓Collaborate with engineers and technicians when performing critical operations on non-flight hardware including mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems
• ✓Perform continuing engineering and production support of ground support equipment to support a 99%+ uptime to support flight hardware integration activities

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• ✓1+ years of hands-on hardware experience performing fabrication, assembly and/or testing

• ✓Experience with NX/Teamcenter designing parts and assemblies
• ✓Experience with CAD and FEA software packages (can be in a professional, academic, entrepreneurial, or hobby setting)
• ✓Experience with at least one commercial FEA or multiphysics simulation package (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, CFD codes, etc.)
• ✓Demonstrated ability to own hardware or systems within an integrated engineering team outside a classroom setting (FSAE, Engineers without Borders, Design-Build-Fly, NASA student launch, personal entrepreneurial ventures, etc.)
• ✓Analytical/scientific programming experience (Python, MATLAB, Excel, etc.)
• ✓Hands-on experience working with, troubleshooting, and/or designing complex fluid systems that involve pressure vessels, filters, pressure relief valves, manual valves, regulators, and gauges.
• ✓Demonstrated expertise in the design, build, and operation of systems per any of the following:
• ✓Fluids -ASME B31.3, ASME B&PV Code Section VIII
• ✓Mechanical: AFSPCMAN 91-710, ASME B30, ASME BTH-1, NASA-STD-5005
• ✓Excellent written and oral communication, especially translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• ✓General hands-on mechanical experience: welding, automotive, robotics, rocketry, etc.
• ✓Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere
• ✓Unfazed by change in strategic direction

• ✓Ability to pass Air Force background check for Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA
• ✓Physical effort including standing, lifting and carrying moderately heavy materials or equipment (15 to 30 lbs.)
• ✓Overall mental fitness with the ability to work in a high-concentration, high-stress environment requiring prolonged mental concentration (under possible extended work hours)
• ✓Ability to be flexible on shifts
• ✓Occasional travel may be required

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