Lead Electronic Development Engineer, Gateways (Starlink)

SpaceX • Bastrop, TX

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About The Position

As the Lead Electronic Development Engineer on the Starlink team, you will be responsible for the design, performance, and reliability of next-generation gateways - ultimately ensuring that our ground station antenna hardware can withstand the harshest environmental conditions while maintaining reliable communication with millions of users on a global scale. This is a high-visibility role in which you own the entire life cycle of hardware that sits at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, thermal, software, and antenna/RF engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or physics
• 3+ years of professional experience with hardware design/development or electronics test engineering

Nice To Haves

• 6+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly-reliable products
• 6+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
• 6+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
• 6+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
• Strong understanding of computer networking and interfaces (10/100/400/800G networking/Tbps switches)
• Strong understanding of optical networking architectures and fundamentals
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Experience in desktop/server Linux and embedded operating systems
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3-5 engineers to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for our Gateway systems
• Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging
• Optimize existing designs to improve reliability and reduce production and field defects
• Implement automated design validation test assets to speed up development cycles
• Develop and train direct reports to enable product ownership and empowered decision making
• Partner with antenna, software, mechanical, networking, thermal, manufacturing and production test teams

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior