SpaceX Manager of Gateway Electronics Engineering responsible for leading a team to design and validate reliable electronics for Starlink gateways. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product architecture and project milestones.
Responsibilities
Manage a team of 5-10 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and validate highly reliable electronics for our gateway systems
Define and manage all key project milestones and deliverables
Maintain alignment with key partners such as antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams to drive overall business success
Compile and maintain lessons learned to influence future designs. Understand and implement long-term technical and business solutions that meet/exceed goals to deliver for our customers and Starlink’s vision
Drive product architecture with a focus on innovative solutions to achieve low cost, greater performance, best user experience, and extended reliability. Implement automated design validation tests and production tests as necessary
Recruit, develop, and promote a team of exceptional engineers and/or specialists responsible for designing, analyzing, building, and testing existing and new Starlink gateways. Set standards, and hold the team accountable to deliver with high technical rigor and discipline
Own and build out associated engineering lab or development workspaces; hire necessary team members to deliver assets required, and efficiently manage associated capital spend
Consistently contribute effort, leadership, and creative thinking to solving complex problems in a collaborative fashion and under tight deadlines. Above all, remain dependable, which means being unfazed by ambiguity or major changes in strategic direction
Ensure a strong focus is placed on safety and maintain an excellent safety record
Qualification
3+ years of management experienceSignificant experience testing
Required
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other engineering/STEM discipline
7+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering
3+ years of management experience
Preferred
Previous experience managing large and multidisciplinary technical projects, ideally driving hardware design from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life-cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
Significant experience rapidly designing and delivering highly-reliable products, especially for harsh or high stakes environments in the field
Significant 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
Significant experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
Strong problem-solving skills when designing and qualifying hardware for EMC/EMI compliance and thermal management
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
Strong understanding of computer networking and interfaces (10/100/400/800G networking/Tbps switches)
Strong understanding of optical networking architectures and fundamentals
