New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is hiring a New Graduate Electrical Engineer for Starshield. You will contribute to developing electronics for satellite communications and work within a cross-disciplinary team to address complex challenges.

This entry-level role emphasizes rapid design, hardware bring-up, and system-level thinking across the hardware lifecycle, collaborating with software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites.
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, bring-up.
• Collaborate with software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams.

Skills

Electrical design

Hardware bring-up

System-level thinking

Requirements verification

Job description

New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

Hawthorne, CA

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal ofenabling human life on Mars.

Our SpaceX team is working on the toughest and most audacious projects on our planet: making humanity multiplanetary. As an electrical development engineer on the SpaceX team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle. You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems. Every day, we push the limits of what is possible through innovation, determination, and teamwork to drive the mission to success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites.
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams