Senior RF Engineer — Phased Arrays & Antennas

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Starlink RF Engineer who will own RF systems for customer-facing hardware, including phased arrays and antennas. You will design, implement, and verify antennas, work with cross-functional teams, and influence the constellation and gateway performance.

The role requires hands-on design, simulation, and production-readiness, with collaboration across EE, ME, DSP and software teams to bring concepts to full-scale production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional RF experience with antennas or communication systems.
• 5+ years professional experience with radio test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generators, and network analyzers.
• 5+ years of professional programming experience in Python, C#, C++, or MATLAB.

Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate and characterize prototypes of antennas, feed systems and RF front ends for next‑generation phased arrays, gateways, and consumer wireless products
• Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (antennas, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance
• Work in close collaboration with EE, ME, DSP and software engineers to design and validate RF systems
• Create and test phased array alignment solutions
• Rapidly develop design validation and production test solutions for our high‑volume consumer products
• Write automation software in python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and documentation systems

Skills

RF engineering

Antenna design

Python

C/C++/MATLAB

Measurement instruments

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Master’s or PhD in RF/antenna engineering

Tools

Spectrum analyzers

Vector signal analyzers

Vector signal generators

Network analyzers

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Starlink RF Engineer who will own RF systems for customer-facing hardware, including phased arrays and antennas. You will design, implement, and verify antennas, work with cross-functional teams, and influence the constellation and gateway performance.

The role requires hands-on design, simulation, and production-readiness, with collaboration across EE, ME, DSP and software teams to bring concepts to full-scale production.