Electronic Design Engineer, Satellites

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $105,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About SpaceX

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 · Electronic Design Engineer, Satellites

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Electronic Design Engineer, Satellites (Starlink) joins the team responsible for developing the world’s most advanced broadband internet system. This role involves ownership over the entire hardware life-cycle for satellites, sitting at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and RF engineering. You will perform system trades, requirements capture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, and debugging. The work focuses on high-speed digital communications, analog, network system integration, power electronics, and RF devices. You will utilize skills in mixed-signal circuit board design involving processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, and power supply components. Proficiency in Python and C/C++ is required to support the development of avionics systems and payload hardware, including phased arrays and custom compute electronics.

Skills

PCB Layout Schematic Capture FPGA Python C/C++ Ethernet DDR4 I2C SPI SerDes RF Engineering Power Electronics System Integration

What you'll do

Develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft.
Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, and schematic capture.
Oversee PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, and debugging.
Manage hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
Drive requirements for underlying silicon and complete product production and test.
Monitor on-orbit performance of complex electrical designs.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
1+ years of experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a similar engineering degree (preferred).
2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products (preferred).
2+ years of experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, and high-speed interfaces (preferred).
2+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics (preferred).
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages such as Python and C/C++ (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.

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