New Graduate Engineer, Power Generation

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 · New Graduate Engineer, Power Generation

New Graduate Engineer, Power Generation (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 high-reliability avionics components, switching power converters, signal conditioning, and filters for extreme environments. The engineer will manage sitewide power budgets, monitoring, and metering while ensuring compliance with NFPA 70, 70B, 70E, NESC, and IEEE standards. Key responsibilities include developing protective relay settings for high-voltage equipment and designing microgrids for production facilities. Candidates should possess skills in analog and digital circuit design, power electronics, and industrial communications like Modbus or DNP3. Preferred experience includes using analysis tools such as ETAP or Matlab, PLC programming, HMI/SCADA development, and hands-on construction of control panels and electromechanical systems to solve complex infrastructure challenges.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, operate, and maintain electrical systems for space flight and ground infrastructure.
  • Develop analog and digital circuits including switching power converters, signal conditioning, and high-integrity layouts.
  • Develop high-reliability avionics components such as sensors, power systems, and network interfaces.
  • Manage the full hardware lifecycle from schematic capture and prototyping to debugging and flight support.
  • Design and maintain microgrids for site-wide power distribution and monitoring of mission-critical assets.
  • Create and maintain sitewide power budgets and metering to optimize visibility and efficiency.
  • Implement protective relay settings and schemes for high-voltage equipment.
  • Ensure all electrical systems comply with NFPA, NESC, and IEEE 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.
  • At least 1 year of experience with power systems, automation and controls, or board and sensor design.
  • Experience with power systems analysis tools and studies such as load flow, short-circuit, and arc-flash (preferred).
  • Familiarity with industrial power systems including switchgear, transformers, BESS, VFDs, motors, UPS, generation, relaying, and metering (preferred).
  • Experience with industrial communications, PLC programming, HMI/SCADA development, and robot systems (preferred).
  • Experience with circuit design, signal conditioning, power electronics, high-voltage systems, and PCB design for manufacture (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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