Government Project Engineer

the company 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 the company is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

The company engineering teams tackle the most challenging problems in space exploration by developing our reusable launch vehicles (Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy) and spacecraft (Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon). These vehicles are responsible for delivering satellites into orbit, crew and cargo to the ISS, and will be instrumental in extending humanity’s reach to the moon, Mars, and beyond.

The Government Project Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that we have the customer trust necessary to launch the world’s most valuable and critical crew missions and payloads. We enable increased launch rate and customer flexibility, while ensuring customer satisfaction with 100% mission success.

• Lead one or more technical subject areas, managing 30+ subject matter experts across 3 different customer organizations (NASA LSP, NASA Crew, and NSSL)
• Prepare and manage project schedules in collaboration with customers and internal the company teams across Falcon programs
• Maintain a systems-level understanding of the vehicle, with the ability to deep dive into specific technical topics as needed
• Create and present clear and concise technical arguments to both external and internal teams
• Negotiate, review, and ensure implementation of all customer maintenance, launch vehicle, and re-use requirements
• Represent the company in various customer-led meetings and forums
• Manage vehicle changes for upcoming government, including notifying customers of any modifications
• Track the company and customer risks while developing and coordination mitigation plans in partnership with the customers
• Travel to launch and test sites to support customer visits, tours, or engagements
• Ensure launch vehicle readiness for government missions, coordinating across teams as needed
• Analyze government and commercial customer requirements to determine compatibility with the company products
• Perform specialized analysis in support of verification activities; lead or participate in tests and demonstrations in support of requirement verification, including joint testing with customers
• Interact with customers to describe designs and their function, answer high-level customer technical questions, without a responsible engineer present
• Develop systems and applications to document the company/customer interactions and feedback, and track customer approval workflow

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 1+ years of hardware experience performing engineering, fabrication, assembly, or testing

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline
• Excellent communication skills and desire to attain highest levels of customer satisfaction
• Highly detail oriented, diligent, hard-working
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, with enthusiasm for problem solving and a great attitude in the face of extreme challenges
• Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership skills
• Experience in technical project management and master scheduling
• Experience in owning and effectively resolving root-cause investigations, including effective resolution and hardware containment actions
• 2+ years of experience with any of the following: requirements development, engineering design, hardware production, verification plan development, test and evaluation, NASA or USSF certification of spacecraft and launch vehicles, design engineering, mission management, production and test, launch and mission operations, flight test, systems integration and engineering, project management
• Hands-on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools (mills, lathes, electronics assembly, composite layups, ect.) and design or analysis packages (NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS, CAD, ect.)
• Hardware or project leadership on an award-winning engineering project or competition team (FSAE, Design-Build-Fly, NASA Student…