Power Electronics Engineer, Consumer Hardware & Gateways

SpaceX

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Bastrop, 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 · Power Electronics Engineer, Consumer Hardware & Gateways

Power Electronics Engineer, Consumer Hardware & Gateways (Starlink) joins the Starlink team to design and test highly reliable power electronics for hardware communicating with satellites. The role involves developing AC/DC and DC-DC converters ranging from watt-class boards to multi-kW racks, ensuring ground station antenna hardware withstands harsh environments or powering consumer-facing devices. Key responsibilities include owning schematic capture, magnetics specification, control-loop design, and layout constraints through prototype bring-up. You will architect system-level power distribution and perform verification for efficiency, thermal, EMC, and reliability. Required skills include experience with power electronics, converters, magnetics, or power stages. Preferred expertise includes analog control, discrete logic, fault tolerance, power factor correction, and modeling. This role solves technical challenges in high-power distribution for global satellite internet infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and test highly reliable power electronics for hardware communicating with satellites.
  • Provide engineering expertise for the design, analysis, and testing of AC/DC and DC-DC converters.
  • Architect system-level power distribution and lead design trades with RF, thermal, mechanical, and firmware teams.
  • Own schematic capture, magnetics specification, control-loop design, and layout constraints through prototype bring-up.
  • Define and perform electrical power system verification for efficiency, thermal, EMC, surge, and reliability.
  • Manage new power electronics from EVT through production ramp and cost-down phases.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
  • 1+ years of experience designing power electronics, including converters, magnetics, or power stages.
  • Master’s degree in electrical engineering (preferred).
  • 3+ years of experience in power converter development (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of AC/DC and DC-DC topologies, analog control, and discrete logic design (preferred).
  • Experience in modeling, simulation, testing, and solving EMC related issues (preferred).
  • Experience with high-volume consumer power or high-power outdoor/infrastructure supplies (preferred).
  • U.S. citizenship, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligibility to obtain required Department of State authorizations.

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