Alexander Franke

Hardware Reliability Engineer at SpaceX

Greater Seattle Area

About

Experience

  • SpaceX (1 yr)
    • Hardware Reliability Engineer II
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Hardware Reliability Engineer
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • General Dynamics Electric Boat (Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo)
    • System Engineer II
      Nov 2024 - Jul 2025 · 9 mos

      Lead detail design and development of hydraulic components for nuclear submarines

    • System Engineer I
      Jul 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Research and Design Undergraduate Summer Intern at Sandia National Laboratories
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 mos

    - Supported fundamental scientific research into hydrogen combustion experiments related to pre-ignition - Researched, designed, prototyped, and implemented a tight tolerance part that was used inside a research combustion engine while considering geometric tolerances and finite element analysis to achieve a suitable factor of safety - Created a MATLAB script to process large amounts of data to characterize the temperature distribution of a heated surface to develop a better understanding of the pre-ignition propensity of hydrogen under various conditions - Aided various laboratory upgrades and projects such as high flow gas installation, existing engine component CAD modeling, and streamlining existing hardware systems to be easily changed from experiment to experiment - Presented research findings to the broader scientific community at intern symposium

  • Project Engineering Intern at Webcor
    May 2021 - Aug 2021 · 4 mos

    Worked on a 12 story hotel near Union Square in the heart of San Francisco. While working on the project team I was responsible for tasks including writing, reviewing, and submitting RFI's and submittals. In addition, other responsibilities, tasks, and experiences I took the lead of were: -Worked with experienced individuals to learn fundamental construction concepts -Learned how to use and apply Bluebeam Ruvu, and Navisworks in writing contractual documents -Facilitated field coordination that involved subcontractors -Assembled and distributed OAC meeting report and took part in OAC meetings -Distribute RFI and Submittal responses to the greater project team -Helped in the organization of RFI and Submittal log

  • Research Intern at Robots Crate
    Jul 2020 - Sep 2020 · 3 mos

    -Researched, sketched and designed in SolidWorks a semi autonomous healthcare robot that is being prepared to be sold -Aided in improving design of electric trike and other small design projects utilizing CAD software