Test Engineer, Powertrain Components (Starship) is open at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. The posting gives a salary of $100K - $130K. Posted on Aug 14, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
to the flight hardware start at conception and follow the design through R&D testing, design qualification testing, production/acceptance testing, and finally to failure investigations of hardware that may have failed anywhere in its life cycle. As testing experts, we provide a critical element to the hardware development process, and need to be highly proficient in many different engineering disciplines, including…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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