Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware

InvestedintheMission; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Principal Electrical Design Engineer for Starlink gateways and customer hardware to own the electrical system design of millions of user terminals, Wi‑Fi devices, and ground gateways. You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to drive from concept through full-scale production, ensuring rugged, high‑reliability hardware for a global user base.

This role requires extensive experience across full life cycle hardware development and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering required.
• 8+ years designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, 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 with adjacent engineers to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
• Drive continual improvements by building tools to analyze data on orbit and in lab.
• Challenge assumptions and find simple solutions to complex problems.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

System-level design

Verbal/written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Master's degree in electrical or computer engineering

Tools

PCB layout tools

FPGAs

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Principal Electrical Design Engineer for Starlink gateways and customer hardware to own the electrical system design of millions of user terminals, Wi‑Fi devices, and ground gateways. You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to drive from concept through full-scale production, ensuring rugged, high‑reliability hardware for a global user base.

This role requires extensive experience across full life cycle hardware development and