RF Silicon Software Engineer—Embedded & RFIC

InvestedintheMission; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation

10+ paid holidays per year

Company shuttle Seattle–Redmond

Job summary

SpaceX seeks an RF Silicon Software Engineer to bring new silicon to life by creating the low-level software infrastructure used by Starlink satellites, ground infrastructure, and user terminals. You will operate at the hardware/software boundary within a multidisciplinary team and own critical silicon software components for a high-performance wireless system.

The role involves early-stage silicon bring-up, developing modular driver libraries, HTIL/HIL test platforms, and collaborating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, mathematics or physics.
• 1+ years of professional development experience in C, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Bring up new RF silicon as the first engineer to power up chips for the very first time.
• Design and build modular, reusable production-ready software driver libraries for low-level silicon control with attention to timing, throughput, performance, and simplicity.
• Design and build hardware test platforms (HTIL/HIL), create automated integration and regression tests, and validate silicon driver software on physical hardware or FPGA emulators.
• Support software integration into multiple project-specific flight software teams such as satellite phased-arrays and user terminal production.

Skills

C

C++

Python

RF fundamentals

Embedded software

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics or physics

Tools

FPGA design

SystemVerilog

Oscilloscopes

Job description

SpaceX seeks an RF Silicon Software Engineer to bring new silicon to life by creating the low-level software infrastructure used by Starlink satellites, ground infrastructure, and user terminals. You will operate at the hardware/software boundary within a multidisciplinary team and own critical silicon software components for a high-performance wireless system.

The role involves early-stage silicon bring-up, developing modular driver libraries, HTIL/HIL test platforms, and collaborating with