Manager, Gateway Electronics Engineering

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 · Manager, Gateway Electronics Engineering

JOB TITLE: Manager, Gateway Electronics Engineering (Starlink) As the Electronics Manager on the Starlink team, you will lead a group of five to ten engineers to design, develop, and validate highly reliable electronics for next-generation gateway systems. You will drive electrical architecture, component selection, circuit board design, and board bring-up while managing project milestones and engineering lab workspaces. The role requires collaborating with electrical, silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to ensure ground station antenna hardware withstands harsh environmental conditions for global satellite communication. Key technical requirements include experience with mixed-signal circuit boards, processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DDR4, I2C, SPI, and power supply components. You must possess strong skills in Python, C/C++, Linux, and optical networking architectures to solve complex problems within a high-stakes, high-volume production environment.

What you'll do

  • Manage a team of 5-10 engineers to design, develop, and validate reliable electronics for gateway systems.
  • Drive electrical architecture, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, and debugging.
  • Define and manage all key project milestones and deliverables from initial concept to full-scale production.
  • Develop product architecture to achieve low cost, high performance, and extended reliability in harsh environments.
  • Recruit, develop, and mentor a team of engineers while holding them accountable to high technical rigor.
  • Build out engineering labs and development workspaces while managing associated capital spend.
  • Implement automated design validation tests and production tests to ensure hardware performance.
  • Compile and maintain lessons learned to influence future designs and long-term technical solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering/STEM discipline.
  • 7+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering.
  • 3+ years of management experience.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
  • Experience managing large, multidisciplinary technical projects from concept through production (preferred).
  • Experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, and various interfaces (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of computers, programming languages like Python and C/C++, and computer networking (preferred).
  • Ability to travel to SpaceX sites in Hawthorne, CA and Redmond, WA as needed.

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