The Briefing Room
State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Elderberry on March 25, 2020, 02:56:30 pm
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Space.com by By Mike Wall 3/25/2020
SpaceX wants to get Starship up and running soon.
The coronavirus pandemic isn't shrinking every part of the job market.
For example, SpaceX is looking to hire lots of folks to help ramp up production and testing of its ambitious Starship Mars-colonizing architecture over the coming months — and the company recently issued a public recruiting pitch.
"The design goal for Starship is three flights per day on average [per ship], which equates to roughly 1,000 flights per year at greater than 100 tons per flight. This means every 10 ships would yield 1 megaton per year to orbit," Jessica Anderson, a lead manufacturing engineer at SpaceX, said last week during the launch webcast for the company's latest batch of Starlink internet satellites.
"This is a significant effort, and we are looking for highly skilled engineers and welders to help us make this a reality," Anderson added. "If you're interested in joining the team, please take a look at SpaceX.com/careers."
At the moment, that website lists more than 600 current SpaceX job opportunities, most of them based at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. But about 60 of the offered positions are at SpaceX's South Texas facility, near the village of Boca Chica, where Starship is being built.
More: https://www.space.com/spacex-hiring-starship-engineers-welders.html (https://www.space.com/spacex-hiring-starship-engineers-welders.html)