Lead Production Test Engineer, Customer Hardware

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Lead Production Test Development Engineer for Customer Hardware (Starlink) to direct a team responsible for production test of Starlink devices including dishes, user terminals, and routers.

The role focuses on developing, implementing, and verifying development, production, and reliability test solutions while collaborating across electrical, silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of hardware development or electronics test engineering (internship and extracurricular experience is 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 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

Test engineering leadership

Python

C/C++

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline

Tools

Oscilloscope

Multimeter

Spectrum Analyzer

Network Analyzer

Source Measure Unit

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Lead Production Test Development Engineer for Customer Hardware (Starlink) to direct a team responsible for production test of Starlink devices including dishes, user terminals, and routers.

The role focuses on developing, implementing, and verifying development, production, and reliability test solutions while collaborating across electrical, silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.