Electrical Hardware Engineer, Satellites (Starlink)

Redmond, WAfull time

On Site

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$190k–$290k

H1B: no

SpaceX Principal Electrical Design Engineer at SpaceX for Starlink satellites, owning hardware lifecycle at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and RF engineering. Design, develop, and test electronics for satellite communication and integration.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites
Evaluate third party electrical and design integration solutions for reliable operation of Starlink
Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams, 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 (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) 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

Qualification

2+ years working on aerospace systems

Required

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
8+ years of experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware (internship and project team experience is applicable)

Preferred

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
2+ years working on aerospace systems

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

SpaceX

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