Electrical Engineer, Starship Avionics

SpaceX

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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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TL;DR · Electrical Engineer, Starship Avionics

The Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics) joins the avionics component development team to build advanced electronics for Starship and Super Heavy. This role involves rapidly developing high-reliability avionics components, including sensors, power and network systems, propulsion interfaces, and data acquisition. Key responsibilities include driving system trades, requirements capture, component selection, schematic capture, prototyping, debugging, and manufacturing. The engineer will develop analog and digital circuits from first principles for extreme environments and design acceptance and qualification testing campaigns. Required skills include experience designing, building, or testing circuit boards. Preferred technical expertise includes analog circuit design, signal conditioning, Ethernet, microcontrollers, FPGAs, switching power converters, motor inverters, EMI/EMC compliance, digital signal processing, and circuit board layout for high-speed digital applications or high voltage systems.

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What you'll do

  • Develop high-reliability avionics components for Starship and Super Heavy.
  • Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, and schematic capture.
  • Design analog and digital circuits from first principles for extreme environments.
  • Execute prototyping, bring-up, debugging, and manufacturing for electronic components.
  • Design acceptance and qualification testing campaigns to exercise designs to their limits.
  • Support hardware through production, integration, and flight phases.
  • Drive system changes to improve efficiency, manufacturability, and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or mechanical engineering.
  • 1+ years of experience designing, building, or testing circuit boards or other electronics.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
  • Experience developing fundamentally new hardware rather than incrementally updating legacy hardware (preferred).
  • Experience with analog circuit design, signal chains, sensor conditioning, or hardware filter design (preferred).
  • Experience with Ethernet, network switches, microcontrollers, FPGAs, memory chips, or general networking concepts (preferred).
  • Experience with switching power converters, power magnetics, motor inverters, input filters, or EMI/EMC compliance (preferred).
  • Experience with circuit board layout, high voltage systems, lithium-ion batteries, or design-for-manufacture (preferred).

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