Senior RF Silicon Software Engineer – Embedded RFIC

InvestedintheMission; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, Vision, and Dental

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation + 10+ holidays

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Sr. RF Silicon Software Engineer to bring new silicon to life by creating low-level software for Starlink satellites, ground infrastructure, and user terminals.

You will work at the hardware-software boundary within a multidisciplinary team focused on high-performance wireless digital systems. The role emphasizes bring‑up, driver libraries, HTIL/HIL platforms, and validation on hardware or FPGA emulators, with strong debugging and testing requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science.
• 5+ years of professional development experience in C, C++, or Python.
• Experience developing, debugging, and deploying software used in real-world projects.

Responsibilities

• Bring up new RF silicon as the first engineer to power up chips for the first time.
• Design and build modular, reusable production-ready software driver libraries for low-level silicon control.
• Design and build hardware test platforms and perform automated integration and regression tests.
• Support software integration with flight software teams such as satellite phased-arrays and user terminals.

Skills

C/C++/Python

Debugging

Performance optimization

Unit testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical/computer engineering or computer science

Tools

FPGA design

HDLs (SystemVerilog)

Low-level register access

Schematics/PCB reading

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Sr. RF Silicon Software Engineer to bring new silicon to life by creating low-level software for Starlink satellites, ground infrastructure, and user terminals.

You will work at the hardware-software boundary within a multidisciplinary team focused on high-performance wireless digital systems. The role emphasizes bring‑up, driver libraries, HTIL/HIL platforms, and validation on hardware or FPGA emulators, with strong debugging and testing requirements.