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Charles Bell

Super Heavy booster engineering at SpaceX

Starbase / Port Isabel, TX

About

I'm an aerospace engineer working on Super Heavy booster engineering at SpaceX, in the Starbase / Port Isabel, Texas area. I earned a B.E. in Aerospace Engineering from UT Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering. Before SpaceX I was a Spacecraft Development Student Engineer at Southwest Research Institute, and at UT I led Texas Inventionworks, co-founded Texas Robo-Rumble, and built with the Horns of Fury team for the SXSW 2024 BattleBots competition.

Experience

Super Heavy booster engineering at SpaceX

Jul 2025 – Present · Starbase / Port Isabel, TX

Spacecraft Development Student Engineer

Southwest Research Institute, Division 5 · May 2024 – May 2025 · San Antonio, TX

President

Texas Inventionworks, UT Austin · Apr 2023 – May 2024 · Austin, TX

Student Technician

Texas Inventionworks, UT Austin · Aug 2022 – Apr 2023 · Austin, TX

Education

B.E. Aerospace Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering · 2021 – 2025

Organizations: ASME, Theta Tau

Projects

Texas Robo-Rumble

Co-founder, 2022–2025. A campus combat robotics league at UT Austin.

BattleBots — Horns of Fury

Team member on the UT SXSW 2024 BattleBot build.

Press

Links

Contact

The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn.

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