Senior Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with 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
• Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
• Drive continual improvements to designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware
• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines
• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to comply with ITAR regulations

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar
• 8+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 8+ years of experience designing hardware from concept through production
• 8+ years of experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DDR4, I2C, SPI, and power supply components
• 8+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
• Strong understanding of Python and C/C++

About the Company

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Starlink provides fast, reliable internet to serve populations with little or no connectivity through the world's largest constellation of satellites.