Instrumentation Engineer

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

* Design, build, integrate, and database a cutting edge flight/ground test instrumentation system that meets analyst’s data needs. * Rapidly resolve novel instrumentation challenges * Troubleshoot acceleration, pressure, acoustic, strain, position and thermal sensors * Hands-on hardware integration * Streamline/automate processes and systems to handle several vehicles in parallel * Lead interdisciplinary teams * Execute flight instrumentation systems from start-to-finish (system design, sensor selection/customization, installation, testing, data analysis, and report generation) * Provide design and production guidelines, requirements, and procedures to design and manufacturing engineers * Develop sensor and data databases

**Basic Qualifications:** * Bachelors of Science in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer engineering * 1+ year of experience developing sensors or identifying and fixing sensor signal quality issues **Preferred Skills and Experience:** * Self-motivated with strong organizational, communication and documentation skills * A “can do” attitude and the ability/enthusiasm necessary to work in a unique, fast-paced environment * Enjoy troubleshooting and detail oriented work * Experience conducting large scale and high channel count field tests with accelerometers, pressure transducers, strain gauges, thermocouples, and RTDs * Experience developing vibration mitigation systems such as isolators, tuned mass dampers, or shock absorbers * Experience in automotive, aerospace, aircraft, or civil dynamics or instrumentation * Understands wireless sensor networking * Experience with Matlab, Excel, Labview, databases, web APIs, Python, SQL, flask, regular expressions, and National Instruments hardware * Strong enthusiasm for technology * Programming skills