Hardware Engineer: Gateways & Customer Devices

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX Bastrop, TX is seeking a Hardware Engineer for Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink) to own the electrical design of millions of user-facing devices—Starlink user terminals, dishes, and gateways shipped to customers worldwide.

You will design, implement, verify, and bring up complex electronics, working with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to drive production-ready hardware across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++).
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, and bring-up.
• Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
• Collaborate with adjacent disciplines to deliver high‑performance hardware.
• Improve designs by building tools to analyze data from orbit and in lab.
• Challenge assumptions to find simple solutions to complex problems.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Hardware design

Systems integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline

Job description

SpaceX Bastrop, TX is seeking a Hardware Engineer for Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink) to own the electrical design of millions of user-facing devices—Starlink user terminals, dishes, and gateways shipped to customers worldwide.

You will design, implement, verify, and bring up complex electronics, working with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to drive production-ready hardware across the product lifecycle.