Principal Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Consumer Devices

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Starlink is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to own the development of millions of customer-facing products and devices. You will design, implement, and verify the electrical system for Starlink dishes, routers, and gateways, ensuring reliability and scalability for users worldwide.

You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to take concepts to full-scale production, and you will lead hardware bring-up, testing, and continued improvements in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
• 8+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree.
• 10+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products.
• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, op-amps, ADC/DAC, and power supply components.
• 10+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
• 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 our satellites.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test of complex electrical designs.
• Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
• Drive continual improvements to our designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab.
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar

Job description

Starlink is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to own the development of millions of customer-facing products and devices. You will design, implement, and verify the electrical system for Starlink dishes, routers, and gateways, ensuring reliability and scalability for users worldwide.

You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to take concepts to full-scale production, and you will lead hardware bring-up, testing, and continued improvements in a