New Graduate Engineer, Electrical (Starshield)

SpaceX•Hawthorne, CA

About The Position

SpaceX is hiring a New Graduate Electrical Engineer for Starshield. The engineer will develop electronics for communicating with satellites, taking ownership of design, hardware bring-up, characterization and testing, and requirements generation and verification throughout the hardware life cycle. The role involves cross-disciplinary collaboration and system-level thinking to ensure designs are viable, while rapidly exploring solutions to new or unresolved problems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
Graduating with a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in 2026 or 2027.
Strong understanding of computers and programming languages such as Python and C/C++.
Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Applicants must meet U.S. Government export-control requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production, with emphasis on full life-cycle development of new hardware products rather than incremental updates to legacy hardware.
2+ 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.
2+ years of experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
2+ years of experience with fast-paced projects.
An active security clearance may provide the opportunity to work on sensitive SpaceX missions.

Responsibilities

Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with satellites.
Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams.

Benefits

Potential long-term incentives in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards.
Potential discretionary bonuses.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan allowing employees to purchase additional stock at a discount.
Comprehensive medical coverage.
Vision insurance.
Dental insurance.
401(k) retirement plan.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Various discounts and perks.
May accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation.
10 or more paid holidays per year.
Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.