SpaceX is looking for a Principal Electrical Design Engineer to develop millions of customer-facing products for Starlink. You will own the electrical design for user terminals and Wi-Fi routers, driving development from concept through production and supporting integration with our satellite network.

What You'll Do

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with 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 to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
Drive continual improvements to designs by building tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab.
Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
8+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.

Nice to Have

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree.
10+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
10+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products.
10+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, ADCs/DACs, and power supply components.
10+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++).
Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.

Technical Stack

Processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4)
I2C, SPI, Operational amplifiers, Analog to digital converters, Digital to analog converters, Power supply components
Python, C/C++

Team & Environment

You will interact regularly with partner teams including silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering.

Work Mode

This is an onsite position located in Bastrop, TX.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.