Lead Electrical Test Engineer – Customer Hardware (Production)

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Bastrop, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX seeks a Lead Electrical Test Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) to head a team responsible for high-volume production test of Starlink customer hardware.

You will design, implement, and verify development, production, and reliability test solutions, and collaborate with electrical, silicon, software, mechanical and manufacturing teams to scale production from concept to full deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of hardware development or electronics test engineering experience (internships and extracurricular experience applicable).
• 5+ years of object-oriented programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of test engineers developing fixtures, test cases and automated test solutions for our high-volume consumer phased arrays, WiFi routers, power supplies, and upcoming products.
• Develop and maintain Design For Test (DFT) guidelines and work with design teams to implement the guidelines on new products.
• Develop test strategies, perform thorough test coverage analyses, and conduct formal test strategy reviews with peer teams.
• Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, field data, and production documentation systems.
• Work closely with responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product quality and yield.
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Hardware development

Electronics test engineering

Python programming

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Git

Oscilloscope

Spectrum analyzer

Vector signal generator

Source measure unit

Job description

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX seeks a Lead Electrical Test Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) to head a team responsible for high-volume production test of Starlink customer hardware.

You will design, implement, and verify development, production, and reliability test solutions, and collaborate with electrical, silicon, software, mechanical and manufacturing teams to scale production from concept to full deployment.