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SpaceX · 6 months ago

Lead Electronics Engineer, Gateways (Starlink)

Bastrop, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

3+ years exp

SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars and is seeking a Lead Electronics Engineer for the Starlink team. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, performance, and reliability of next-generation gateways, ensuring communication with millions of users globally.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 3-5 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for our Gateway systems

Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging

Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production and field defects

Implement automated design validation test assets to speed up development cycles

Develop and train direct reports to enable product ownership and empowered decision making

Partner with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams

Qualification

Hardware designElectronics testingMixed-signal circuit designComputer networkingOptical networkingProgramming PythonProgramming C/C++Linux operating systemsCross-functional collaborationCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics

3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering

Preferred

6+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly-reliable products

6+ 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

6+ 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

6+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics

Strong understanding of computer networking and interfaces (10/100/400/800G networking/Tbps switches)

Strong understanding of optical networking architectures and fundamentals

Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)

Experience in desktop/server Linux and embedded operating systems

Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal