Vehicle Operations Engineer

Lead hardware and subsystem owners in designing ground and flight test campaigns that demonstrate critical vehicle functionality, such as static fire tests, suborbital launches, and eventual orbital and interplanetary flight tests. Write test plans and procedures to perform both sub-scale and vehicle-level development testing. Leverage high-level systems expertise to coordinate test goals across departments and support a simplified yet robust vehicle testing strategy that informs future flight hardware designs. Design state machines and write vehicle control software in our in-house vehicle control language, write supporting unit tests in Python. Sit in the vehicle engineer on-console role to oversee Starship ground test and flight operations. Lead test readiness reviews and post-test data reviews to document vehicle development progress.

According to JobzMall, the average salary range for a Vehicle Operations Engineer in Boca Chica Blvd, Brownsville, TX, USA is $50,000 - $60,000 per year. This range is based on salaries reported by employers on the JobzMall platform.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., trading as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars.