Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Bastrop, TX
Posted: 53 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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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As a Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink), you will join the Starlink team to take ownership of developing millions of customer-facing products, including dishes, user terminals, and Wi-Fi routers. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and verification of entire electrical systems for these devices, as well as next-generation gateways designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions while maintaining reliable communication. Your daily work involves driving system trades, requirements capture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, and debugging. You will collaborate with silicon, software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams to move products from concept to full-scale production. Required skills include experience with mixed-signal circuit boards involving processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, and power supply components, alongside proficiency in Python and C/C++.

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Electrical Engineering PCB Layout Schematic Capture Hardware Bring-up FPGAs Ethernet SerDes DDR4 I2C SPI Python C C++ Debugging Prototyping

What you'll do

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for satellite communication.
Manage the full lifecycle of electrical systems from initial concept through mass production.
Perform schematic capture, PCB layout, hardware bring-up, and debugging for complex designs.
Select components and perform system trades to ensure high-performance hardware reliability.
Develop and maintain physical and digital tools to analyze data from orbit and lab testing.
Support hardware during manufacturing processes, satellite integration, and flight operations.
Design next-generation gateway antenna hardware capable of withstanding harsh environmental conditions.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or another engineering discipline.
1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a similar field (preferred).
2+ years of experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products (preferred).
2+ years of experience with full life cycle development of new hardware products from concept through production (preferred).
2+ years of experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, SerDes, and power components (preferred).
2+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics (preferred).
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages like Python or C/C++ (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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