Senior Electrical Design Engineer — Gateways & Customer Hardware

InvestedintheMission

Bastrop (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Engineer for Starlink gateways and customer hardware. You will own development of millions of user-facing products, including Starlink dishes, user terminals, and gateways, ensuring reliability in harsh environments and global scale.

You will work with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to move concepts to full production, driving trades, validation, and on-orbit data analysis to improve designs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.

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

Electrical engineering
Circuit design
Python
C/C++
Cross-functional collaboration
Hardware bring-up

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
Master’s degree in electrical/computer engineering

Tools

FPGA
DDR4
I2C
SPI
Power supply design

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Engineer for Starlink gateways and customer hardware. You will own development of millions of user-facing products, including Starlink dishes, user terminals, and gateways, ensuring reliability in harsh environments and global scale.

You will work with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to move concepts to full production, driving trades, validation, and on-orbit data analysis to improve designs.

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