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SpaceXPosted 2 weeks ago

Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

On-siteBastrop, Texas, United States

Full TimeEnterpriseAerospace Services

Job Summary

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites, driving system trades, requirements capture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, and hardware bring-up. Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware from concept to full-scale production. Get hands-on support through production, satellite integration, and flight while building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab. Challenge assumptions to find simple solutions to complex problems and ensure ground station antenna hardware withstands harsh environmental conditions. Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
  • Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Desired Qualifications

  • Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
  • 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
  • 2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
  • 2+ 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
  • 2+ 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

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