Senior Electronics Lead - Gateway Systems

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Lead Electronic Development Engineer for Gateways (Starlink) to own the design, performance, and reliability of next-generation gateway hardware. You will oversee a cross-disciplinary lifecycle from concept through production, ensuring robust ground station electronics for global user connectivity.

The role demands 6+ years in hardware design and full life cycle hardware development, with strong Python/C/C++ skills, Linux experience, and the ability to travel up to 20% to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics required.
• 3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3-5 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for Gateway systems.
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
• Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production and field defects.
• Implement automated design validation test assets to speed up development cycles.
• Develop and train direct reports to enable product ownership and empowered decision making.
• Partner with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams.

Skills

Hardware design

Electronics testing

Mixed-signal PCB design

Python

C/C++

Networking fundamentals

Linux

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Lead Electronic Development Engineer for Gateways (Starlink) to own the design, performance, and reliability of next-generation gateway hardware. You will oversee a cross-disciplinary lifecycle from concept through production, ensuring robust ground station electronics for global user connectivity.

The role demands 6+ years in hardware design and full life cycle hardware development, with strong Python/C/C++ skills, Linux experience, and the ability to travel up to 20% to