Principal Electrical Engineer, AI Satellites

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Bastrop, TX
Posted: 15 days ago
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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 · Principal Electrical Engineer, AI Satellites

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Principal Electrical Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind) joins the Starmind Payload Engineering team to develop high-reliability electrical hardware for a new constellation of satellites providing orbital AI inference and data center workloads. This role involves ownership over the entire lifecycle of hardware components, including power electronics, high-speed digital systems, mixed-signal designs, robust avionics, networking, and custom compute electronics. The engineer will perform system trades, requirements capture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, and debugging for complex electrical designs in extreme space environments. Key technical skills include experience with FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, and power supply components. Proficiency in Python and C/C++ is required to support the development of integrated hardware systems. The role addresses the challenge of providing high-performance computing and connectivity for on-orbit data processing.

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Skills

PCB Layout mixed signal design Power Electronics FPGA Python C/C++ high speed digital RF DDR4 Ethernet I2C SPI Digital to Analog Converters Hardware Bring-up Schematic Capture Space Systems

What you'll do

Develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft including power systems, memory, and networking.
Manage the full hardware lifecycle from requirements capture and component selection to manufacturing and on-orbit performance.
Perform PCB design tasks including layer stackup, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing.
Execute hardware bring-up, debugging, and testing for complex digital, analog, RF, and power conversion systems.
Create and maintain documentation for library creation and PCB fabrication.
Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight operations.
Integrate electrical designs with mechanical, thermal, and software engineering requirements to deliver high-performance hardware.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
10+ years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree (preferred).
2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products (preferred).
2+ years of experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards including processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, and power components (preferred).
2+ years of experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics (preferred).
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages such as Python or C/C++ (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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