New Graduate Electrical Engineer

SpaceX

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Starbase, TXBrownsville, 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 · New Graduate Electrical Engineer

New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starship) joins a world-class electrical team focused on developing advanced electronics for orbital flight and space travel. This role involves designing, building, operating, and maintaining electrical systems, including analog and digital circuits for extreme environments, switching power converters, signal conditioning, and high-integrity layouts. The engineer will develop high-reliability avionics components like sensors and network interfaces while participating in the conceptual development of automated equipment for production. Key responsibilities include managing sitewide power budgets, implementing protective relay settings for high-voltage equipment, and ensuring compliance with NFPA 70, 70B, 70E, NESC, and IEEE standards. Required skills include experience with power systems analysis tools like ETAP or Matlab, industrial communications such as Modbus and DNP3, PLC programming, HMI/SCADA development, and circuit board design-for-manufacture to solve complex problems in orbital flight and space travel.

What does a Electrical Engineer earn?

Median $150000 from 133 postings across 21 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, operate, and maintain complex electrical systems for space flight and ground infrastructure.
  • Develop analog and digital circuits including power converters, signal conditioning, and high-integrity layouts for extreme environments.
  • Execute the full lifecycle of avionics components from requirement definition and schematic capture to prototyping and flight support.
  • Design and maintain microgrids, power budgets, and monitoring systems for mission-critical assets at Starbase.
  • Develop automated equipment and processes to support Starship manufacturing and vehicle handling.
  • Troubleshoot hardware issues hands-on and provide technical support to technicians in dynamic environments.
  • Implement protective relay settings and schemes for high-voltage equipment while ensuring compliance with industry safety standards.

What we're looking for

  • Must be graduating with a bachelor's, master's, or PhD in 2027.
  • Degree must be in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline.
  • Must have at least 1 year of experience with power systems, automation and controls, or board and sensor design.
  • Experience with power systems analysis tools and industrial power systems up to high voltages (preferred).
  • Experience with industrial communications, PLC programming, HMI/SCADA development, and robot systems (preferred).
  • Experience with electrical schematic/panel design and hands-on building of electromechanical systems (preferred).
  • Experience with analog/digital circuit design, power electronics, high-voltage systems, and FPGAs (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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