Senior Hardware Engineer: Gateways & Customer Devices

SpaceX Corp.; Bastrop (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX is seeking a Sr. Hardware Engineer for Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink). You will own the development of millions of customer-facing devices shipped to end users, including Starlink dishes, user terminals, Wi‑Fi routers, and regional gateways.

You will work with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to take designs from concept to production, ensuring robust performance in challenging environments and across global deployments.

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 (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) 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

Circuit design

Mixed-signal PCB design

Python

C/C++

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX is seeking a Sr. Hardware Engineer for Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink). You will own the development of millions of customer-facing devices shipped to end users, including Starlink dishes, user terminals, Wi‑Fi routers, and regional gateways.

You will work with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to take designs from concept to production, ensuring robust performance in challenging environments and across global deployments.