Principal Electrical Engineer, Satellites (Starlink)

SpaceX
Redmond
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Hardware, Embedded & Systems EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Teamwork","Communication"]

Lead the end-to-end hardware development for Starlink satellites, owning the electronics lifecycle from concept through production and flight. Collaborate with software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to design, verify, and integrate high-reliability electrical designs, including power electronics, RF, and mixed-signal circuits, across avionics and payload subsystems.

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SpaceX
4 months ago

Principal Electrical Engineer, Satellites (Starlink)

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Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end hardware development for Starlink satellites, owning the electronics lifecycle from concept through production and flight. Collaborate with software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams to design, verify, and integrate high-reliability electrical designs, including power electronics, RF, and mixed-signal circuits, across avionics and payload subsystems.
Location: Redmond
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hardware, Embedded & Systems Engineering

Key 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

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kPaid LeavePaid Holidays

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering; 8+ years of experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware (internship and project team experience applicable).
  • •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.
Experience:8+ yearsAerospaceSatellitesHardwareSpacecraft
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Problem-solvingTeamworkCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonC/C++FPGADDR4EthernetSerdesI2CSPI

Company Brief

SpaceX
Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers, aiming to reduce space transportation costs and enable human life on Mars through reusable launch vehicles and integrated space systems.
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States
Founded: 2002
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