Senior Electrical Design Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $140,000–$205,000 / yr
Posted: 165 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $172k

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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 · Senior Electrical Design Engineer

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As a Sr. Electrical Design Engineer (Starshield), you will join the Starshield team to develop hardware for government use, specifically focusing on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. You will take ownership of the full lifecycle of electronics, from blank-sheet design and requirements generation to board bring-up, characterization, testing, and debugging. Your daily work involves driving electrical architecture, component selection, and circuit board design while collaborating with cross-functional software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams. To succeed in this role, you must possess expertise in mixed-signal circuit boards featuring processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, and power supply components. You will utilize Python and C/C++ to solve complex problems. The role requires designing highly reliable electronics for satellite communication within a fast-paced environment involving rapid development cycles and innovative problem-solving.

Skills

Circuit Board Design Mixed-Signal FPGA Ethernet SerDes DDR4 I2C SPI Python C C++ hardware bring- up Debugging Digital to Analog Converters

What you'll do

Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for satellite communication.
Drive electrical architecture, component selection, and circuit board design.
Perform hardware bring-up, characterization, and debugging of electronic systems.
Generate and verify technical requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Solve complex engineering problems for previously unknown or unsolved issues.
Manage the full development cycle from blank-sheet concept to production.
Integrate electrical designs with software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing systems.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
5+ years of professional experience designing electronics products.
Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar field (preferred).
3+ years of experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products (preferred).
3+ years of experience with full life cycle development of new hardware products (preferred).
2+ years of experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards using processors, FPGAs, and high-speed interfaces (preferred).
2+ years of experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics (preferred).
Active TS/SCI clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one.