Hey, How About Starship Earth?

By KIM BELLARD I missed the job announcement on the company website.  I missed it again when the company posted the job on Linkedin.  I missed it when Eric Ralph tweeted that the posting was “probably the coolest job posting I’ve read in years.”  Fortunately, though, I follow Isaac Kohne (MD, PhD), and I did see his tweet: Yes, I’m talking about SpaceX.  Yes, the job is for a “Starship Medical Engineer.”  Yes, it’s to help SpaceX’s mission to Mars, whenever that might be.  Who knows, the job might even entail going to Mars, although that’s not spelled out.  I am not, of course, remotely qualified for such a job.  In fact, I don’t even know anyone who might be.  But I agree with Mr. Ralph that it’s probably the coolest job posting I’ve seen in years, maybe ever.  And I even more agree with Dr. Kohne: it could be an “opportunity to rethink a bigger broken system.” Hint: I don’t think he’s talking about just the SpaceX mission.  SpaceX is looking for a physician – M.D. or D.O. – who also has a Masters of Engineering and experience with aerospace medicine.  I imagine that substantially cuts down on the candidate pool.  The list of responsibilities are pretty daunting: Serve as a point of contact for customers with relevant SpaceX stakeholders for medical development initiativesWork across teams to design, integrate, and implement a medical system of the f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard space medicine SpaceX Source Type: blogs