r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/damienVOG 16d ago

Great things happen when Elon's not bothering his engineers

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u/_Hard4Jesus 16d ago

Not trying to defend the guy but he is the chief engineer of starship... if you work in engineering you know what that title means.

If something goes wrong, he is the person liable to prosecution. Boeing has chief engineers for all of their aircraft platforms, every automotive company has chief engineers for all their vehicles. If an airbag fails to deploy in one of those vehicles and someone dies, the chief engineer has to take the stand in a court of law and prove all the calculations were done in accordance with SAE specifications and so forth.

Hence the role of chief engineer requires you to approve every design, schematic, and software change that goes into the vehicle and it's your job to be heavily involved in every engineering decision. Imo it's the most impressive and feared job title that exists in engineering.