Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

Bastrop, TXfull time

Remote

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H1B: no

SpaceX Principal Electrical Design Engineer at SpaceX Starlink responsible for the design, implementation, and verification of electrical systems for customer hardware and gateways. Owns development of millions of customer-facing products including Starlink dishes and Wi-Fi routers.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites
Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, 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

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Required

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
8+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware

Preferred

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
10+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
10+ 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
10+ 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
10+ 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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