Sr. Electrical Design Engineer, Satellites Payload (Starlink)

Palo Alto - 1200full time

On Site

senior

$145k–$205k

H1B: no

SpaceX Sr. Electrical Design Engineer on the Starlink Payload Engineering team responsible for the entire hardware life-cycle enabling satellite connectivity. This role involves designing advanced phased array and parabolic antennas, custom networking hardware, and collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines.

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
Experience working on space grade hardware
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

SpaceX

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