Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Devices

InvestedintheMission; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Hardware Engineer on the Starlink team to own the hardware development of millions of customer-facing products (dishes, user terminals, and gateways) shipped worldwide. You will design, verify, and implement the entire electrical system, ensuring reliability and manufacturability at scale.

You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to deliver high-performance hardware and to support production through satellite integration and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree.
• 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production; processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, Serdes, DDR4, I2C, SPI, op-amps, ADC/DAC, power components.
• 2+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
• Strong understanding of Python and C/C++.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test of complex electrical designs.
• Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
• Drive continual improvements to our designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab.
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems.

Skills

Python

C/C++

PCB design

Mixed-signal design

FPGA

Hardware bring-up

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Master's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Hardware Engineer on the Starlink team to own the hardware development of millions of customer-facing products (dishes, user terminals, and gateways) shipped worldwide. You will design, verify, and implement the entire electrical system, ensuring reliability and manufacturability at scale.

You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to deliver high-performance hardware and to support production through satellite integration and