Lead Gateway Electronics Engineer

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Bastrop, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX, seeks a Lead Electronic Development Engineer for Starlink Gateways to own the end-to-end hardware design and verification of next-generation gateway electronics. You will ensure performance and reliability across electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and RF interfaces in a high-visibility environment.

The role demands leadership of a 3-5 person team, hands-on architectural decisions, and collaboration with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, and production-test

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics.
• 3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3-5 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for our Gateway systems.
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
• Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production and field defects.
• Implement automated design validation test assets to speed up development cycles.
• Develop and train direct reports to enable product ownership and empowered decision making.
• Partner with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams.

Skills

Electronics design

PCB design

Mixed-signal circuits

Networking basics

Python

C/C++

Linux

Team leadership

System-level ownership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or physics

Tools

Altium/OrCAD

Oscilloscopes & test benches

Lab equipment

Job description

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX, seeks a Lead Electronic Development Engineer for Starlink Gateways to own the end-to-end hardware design and verification of next-generation gateway electronics. You will ensure performance and reliability across electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and RF interfaces in a high-visibility environment.

The role demands leadership of a 3-5 person team, hands-on architectural decisions, and collaboration with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, and production-test