SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. We are seeking a Sr. Electrical Design Engineer to join the Starlink team, where you will have complete ownership over the development of millions of customer-facing products and devices, including Starlink user terminals and Wi-Fi routers. You will be responsible for the design and performance of next-generation gateways, ensuring our ground station hardware can withstand harsh environmental conditions while maintaining reliable global communication.
What You'll Do
- 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 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.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
- 5+ 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.
- 8+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
- 8+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products.
- 8+ 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, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components.
- 8+ 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
This role requires you to interact regularly with partner teams including silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing.
Work Mode
This is an onsite role based 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.
