Signal Integrity Engineer: High‑Speed Serdes for Starlink

Future Ventures; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Stock options

Paid parental leave

Medical insurance

Shuttle to office

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer for Starlink’s Payload Engineering team. You will own SI across the hardware life-cycle, working at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and RF engineering to enable high-speed satellite connectivity.

You’ll define design, analysis, and verification processes and help propagate knowledge across the Starlink program, with expected collaboration across several engineering domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
• 1+ years designing circuits, hardware, or electronics.
• 1+ years using 3D EM tools and high-speed digital channel simulators (CST, HFSS, ADS).
• 1+ years of research or industry experience with high-speed digital design.

Responsibilities

• Specify, design, simulate, verify, and troubleshoot SI aspects of satellite hardware.
• Collaborate with RF, antenna, ASIC, packaging, mechanical, thermal, software, and production engineers.
• Define top-level specifications for PCB materials and channel subcomponents.
• Design and optimize transition structures for the channel.
• Root cause and fix issues in PCB manufacturing, PCBA test, or satellite integration.
• Define best practices, simulation workflows, test methodologies, and lab equipment needs.

Skills

3D EM tools

high-speed digital design

Python/C/C++

cross-functional teamwork

signal integrity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering/physics

Master’s or PhD (preferred)

Tools

CST

HFSS

ADS

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer for Starlink’s Payload Engineering team. You will own SI across the hardware life-cycle, working at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and RF engineering to enable high-speed satellite connectivity.

You’ll define design, analysis, and verification processes and help propagate knowledge across the Starlink program, with expected collaboration across several engineering domains.