Principal Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware
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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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.
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