Lead Electronic Development Engineer, Gateways

SpaceX

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Bastrop, TX
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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 · Lead Electronic Development Engineer, Gateways

Lead Electronic Development Engineer, Gateways (Starlink) joins the Starlink team to lead a group of engineers in designing and testing highly reliable electronics for gateway systems. This role involves owning the entire hardware lifecycle at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and antenna/RF engineering. Key responsibilities include driving electrical architecture, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, and debugging while optimizing designs to reduce production defects. The candidate will also implement automated design validation test assets and mentor direct reports. Required skills include experience with mixed-signal circuit boards featuring processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, and power supply components. Technical competencies include computer networking (10/100/400/800G), optical networking architectures, and programming in Python or C/C++. The role focuses on ensuring ground station antenna hardware survives harsh environments to maintain global communication.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of engineers to design, develop, and test reliable electronics for Gateway systems.
  • Drive electrical architecture, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, and verification.
  • Perform hardware bring-up and debugging for complex electronic systems.
  • Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production or field defects.
  • Implement automated design validation test assets to accelerate development cycles.
  • Mentor and train direct reports to foster product ownership and empowered decision-making.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of hardware at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, and RF engineering.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
  • 3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements.
  • 6+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly-reliable products (preferred).
  • 6+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production (preferred).
  • 6+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, and high-speed interfaces (preferred).
  • 6+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of computer networking, optical networking architectures, and programming languages like Python or C/C++ (preferred).

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