Flight-Critical Avionics Design Engineer (Falcon & Dragon)

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Disability and life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation (3 weeks)

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Electrical Design Engineer for Falcon & Dragon Avionics to design new hardware and iterate on existing electronics across the product lifecycle. You will analyze, troubleshoot, and improve circuits, fixtures, and tooling to enhance reliability and manufacturability on spaceflight hardware.

The role emphasizes fast-paced, autonomous work in a multidisciplinary team, with opportunities to own complex schematics, layouts, and validation tests for flight hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
• 1+ years of experience in electronics hardware design (academic projects, internships, and professional experience all qualify).
• 1+ years of experience with electrical test equipment (e.g., multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes) to verify hardware functionality.

Responsibilities

• Design new hardware, redesign existing hardware, and modify PCBAs for reliability and manufacturability.
• Own avionics hardware across the product life cycle.
• Drive changes to electrical schematics and drawings to improve reliability and manufacturability.
• Perform root cause investigations on off-nominal behavior and mitigate risk.
• Derive engineering justification to resolve production issues across assembly, test, and integration.
• Design test setups and perform hardware validation via benchtop and environmental testing.

Skills

Analog circuits

Digital circuits

Mixed-signal design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

LTspice

SPI

I2C

CAN

Ethernet

RS422

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering

Tools

KiCad

Altium

Eagle

LTspice

SIMetrix

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Electrical Design Engineer for Falcon & Dragon Avionics to design new hardware and iterate on existing electronics across the product lifecycle. You will analyze, troubleshoot, and improve circuits, fixtures, and tooling to enhance reliability and manufacturability on spaceflight hardware.

The role emphasizes fast-paced, autonomous work in a multidisciplinary team, with opportunities to own complex schematics, layouts, and validation tests for flight hardware.