Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

SpaceX
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Hardware, Embedded & Systems EngineeringExperience: 1+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Problem solving"]

Own the design, implementation, and verification of Starlink’s customer-facing hardware and related gateway electronics. You’ll develop and test reliable electrical systems (including mixed-signal circuit boards), collaborate with partner teams across silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing, and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight. You’ll also analyze on-orbit and lab data to continuously improve designs and troubleshoot complex electrical systems.

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Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

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Job Summary

Own the design, implementation, and verification of Starlink’s customer-facing hardware and related gateway electronics. You’ll develop and test reliable electrical systems (including mixed-signal circuit boards), collaborate with partner teams across silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing, and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight. You’ll also analyze on-orbit and lab data to continuously improve designs and troubleshoot complex electrical systems.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hardware, Embedded & Systems Engineering
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites.
  • •Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams.
  • •Drive electrical system work across requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test.
  • •Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
  • •Collaborate with engineers across adjacent disciplines to deliver integrated, high-performance hardware and drive continual design improvements using physical and digital analysis tools.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or another engineering discipline.
  • •1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
  • •2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
  • •2+ years designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, ADC/DAC, and power supply components.
  • •2+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
Experience:1+ yearsHardwareElectronicsMixed-signal
Education:Bachelor's in electrical engineering
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationProblem solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonC/C++ProcessorsFPGAsEthernetMulti-GHz SerdesDRAMDDR4I2CSPIOperational amplifiersADCDACPCB layoutSchematic capturePower supply components

Eligibility

Nationality:US National

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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