Electrical Engineer, Spacecraft Avionics (Starshield)

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the space sector is seeking an Electrical Engineer for their innovative Starshield program. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in the entire lifecycle of electrical hardware, from design to testing and integration. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges and ensure the successful operation of systems in orbit. If you are passionate about advancing the commercial space industry and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, this position is perfect for you. Join a team that pushes the boundaries of technology and contributes to national security efforts through cutting-edge solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar field required.
• 1+ years of experience in electrical hardware design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure successful operation of avionics suite on orbit.
• Design electrical architecture and manage project schedules.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver functional products.

Skills

Electrical Hardware Design

Troubleshooting

Project Management

Communication Skills

Programming (Python, C/C++)

Mixed-Signal Circuit Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Schematic Capture Software

Debugging Tools

Job description

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SPACECRAFT AVIONICS (STARSHIELD)

Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. As an electrical development engineer on the Starshield team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle.

Starshield is a quickly growing program with a wide range of engaging opportunities from blank-sheet design to on-orbit troubleshooting. You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems. Every day we push the limits of what is possible through innovation, determination, and teamwork to drive the mission to success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ultimate ownership of ensuring the successful operation of bus and payloads on orbit via the avionics suite
• Electrical architecture and design, product requirements, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, and documentation
• Flight production, development prototyping, vendor selection, and manufacturing
• Circuit and full product bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and confidence, acceptance and qualification testing
• Deliver flight hardware on time and active project management through schedule maintenance and status reports
• Integration, full vehicle integrated testing, on-orbit operations support, and data review
• Multidisciplinary coordination with software, firmware, mechanical, PCB layout, environments, integration, harnessing, test, manufacturing, and production teams to deliver a fully functional product
• System engineering efforts to ensure design meets all intents and does not adversely impact other groups or designs
• Drive improvements in reliability and capabilities while minimizing cost and schedule

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics
• 1+ years of professional experience designing and delivering electrical hardware (internship and project experience are applicable)

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
• 4+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing electrical hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products, not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
• 2+ years of professional experience with hands-on testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
• 2+ years of professional experience with fast-paced projects
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
• Ability to work in an autonomously driven and demanding startup atmosphere
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight
• Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance, or ability to obtain one desired but not required

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing