SpaceX Sr. Hardware Design Engineer at SpaceX Starlink team responsible for electrical hardware design of satellite payloads. Owns hardware lifecycle from concept through production and on-orbit performance.
Responsibilities
Rapidly develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft.
Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, test, and on-orbit performance of complex electrical designs
Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines (mechanical, thermal, software, test, supply chain, silicon design, RF and antenna, ) to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
Challenge assumptions, question requirements, learn from your mistakes, and approach problems with an open mind
Qualification
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Required
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another STEM discipline
5+ years of experience design/analysis ofcircuits, electronic products, or hardware
Preferred
Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
5+ 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
3+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4, LPDDR5, etc.), I2C, SPI, RFsignal chains, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
3+ 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
