Tesla is hinting at more SpaceX collaboration as the “spaceship” adds future potential products to work on for its future designers.
We recently reported on how Tesla and SpaceX have revamped synergy with more workers moving between companies and more equipment purchases between the two.
Now Tesla is thinking of ongoing collaboration between the two companies.
In a new role for senior car designer, mentioned on her career website (has tips for u / tdoesstuff), Tesla mentioned “spaceship design” as a potential task:
By using your manly production design experience and innovative thinking, you will primarily have the task of creating designs for future cars, but you can also call for other design tasks (product design, spaceships design, etc.) based on your skill set. Our design team prides itself on being multi-talented and flexible, and we look for the same in our potential candidates. You will report to the Senior Manager of Vehicle Design, and this position resides in Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California.
The position is based at Tesla’s Hawthorne Design Studio, which is located directly next to SpaceX’s headquarters.
This mention in the new task list comes as SpaceX is developing Starship, a fully reusable super heavy-lift launched car and spaceship with large capacity.
It is expected that it will be the vehicle that SpaceX will use to colonize Mars and CEO Elon Musk also talked about using the spacecraft for extremely fast travel on Earth to and from various space sports.
If Tesla ends up designing some features of the new spaceship, it would not be the first Tesla products inside the car.
Earlier this year, we reported on SpaceX using Tesla battery packs in the new “Starship” Mars car prototype.
Furthermore, Tesla and SpaceX have a joint material team to create new materials for use on Earth and in space.
Electrek’s Take
This is not too surprising. I expect there will be a lot of design work in Starship that SpaceX is not used to doing.
We talk about residential neighborhoods and things of the sort.
While this is also not exactly Tesla’s expertise, it is much closer to a car than to rockets.
As an example, it is rumored that Tesla SpaceX helped with the interior design, especially the seats, of the Dragon Spacecraft that was recently used to transport astronauts to the space station.
The new job listing could also just be an extension of that. We’ll see.
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