New Graduate Electrical Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $115,000–$140,000 / yr
Posted: 8 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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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.

SpaceX currently has 851 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 590 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · New Graduate Electrical Engineer

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New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield) joins the SpaceX team to develop highly reliable electronics for satellite communications. This role involves driving electrical architecture, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, and debugging. The engineer will manage the full hardware life cycle, including requirements generation, board bring-up, and characterization, while collaborating with software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams. Candidates should possess a bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering and experience with mixed-signal circuit boards featuring processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, and power supply components. Proficiency in Python and C/C++ is required to solve previously unsolved problems. The work focuses on creating robust hardware solutions for complex satellite communication systems within a fast-paced development environment.

What does a Electrical Engineer earn in California?

Median $167500 from 76 postings across 15 companies.

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Skills

Circuit Board Design FPGA Python C/C++ Ethernet SerDes DDR4 I2C SPI Hardware Bring-up Debugging Digital to Analog Converters

What you'll do

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for satellite communications.
Drive electrical architecture, specifications, and component selection for new hardware.
Create and implement circuit board designs from concept through production.
Perform hardware bring-up, characterization, and debugging of electronic systems.
Generate and verify technical requirements throughout the hardware life cycle.
Solve previously unsolved or unknown engineering problems in a fast-paced environment.
Ensure designs are viable at a system level through cross-disciplinary integration.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
Graduating with a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in 2026 or 2027.
U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
2+ years of experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products (preferred).
2+ years of experience designing hardware from concept through production (preferred).
2+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, and various interfaces (preferred).
2+ years of experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics (preferred).
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages such as Python and C/C++ (preferred).