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SpaceX · 15 hours ago

Electrical Design Engineer, User Products (Starshield)

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$100K/yr - $120K/yr

1+ years exp

SpaceX is a company focused on developing technologies for space exploration, with a goal of enabling human life on Mars. They are seeking an Electrical Design Engineer for their User Products team to design and integrate hardware for national security communications, ensuring high reliability in challenging environments.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites

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

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 in the field and in the lab

Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

Own hardware from conceptual design through volume production and real-world operations to support customers’ needs

Rapidly iterate on designs and analysis to inform high-level system trades and steer overall product direction

Perform performance testing on hardware to validate analysis and demonstrate compliance with design criteria

Demonstrate extreme ownership of product outcomes at every stage of development and production

Qualification

Electrical engineeringCircuit designMixed-signal circuit boardsPythonC/C++TestingDebuggingCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsSelf-motivated

Required

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or STEM discipline

1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware (internship and extracurricular experience are applicable)

Ability and willingness to obtain a Top Secret clearance

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

Demonstrated ability to own hardware or systems within an integrated engineering team outside a classroom setting (FSAE, Engineers without Borders, Student Directed Research, Design-Build-Fly, NASA student launch, personal entrepreneurial ventures, etc.)

Self-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills