Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer, AI Satellites

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Bastrop, TX
Posted: 77 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer, AI Satellites

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Sr. Electrical Hardware 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. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of hardware components, including power electronics, high-speed digital systems, mixed-signal designs, robust avionics, networking, and custom compute electronics. You will perform system trades, requirements capture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, and debugging for complex electrical designs. The work requires designing circuit boards featuring processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces, I2C, SPI, and power supply components. Candidates should possess expertise in Python or C/C++ and experience with aerospace systems to solve the challenge of providing high-performance computing in extreme space environments. You will collaborate across mechanical, thermal, software, and silicon design teams to deliver integrated hardware for on-orbit data centers.

Skills

Mixed-Signal Power Electronics FPGA Ethernet SerDes DDR4 I2C SPI Python C++ RF Hardware Bring-up Schematic Capture PCB Layout Avionics

What you'll do

Develop high-reliability electronics for satellites including power systems, digital systems, and mixed-signal designs.
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 electrical systems.
Create and maintain documentation for PCB fabrication and library management.
Design high-performance compute electronics, memory, and networking components for orbital AI processing.
Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight operations.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
5+ 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, SerDes, and power components (preferred).
2+ years of professional 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, permanent resident, protected refugee, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements.

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