New Graduate Engineer, Electrical

SpaceX • Hawthorne, CA

120d • $100,000 - $120,000

About The Position

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. As an electrical development engineer on the SpaceX team, you will demonstrate extreme ownership through detailed and thorough design, hardware bring-up/characterization/testing, and requirements generation/verification - ultimately seeing your hardware through all aspects of its life cycle. You will work with many cross-disciplinary teams and will need to think at a system level to ensure that your design is viable. Our development timelines are quick and you will need to rigorously explore solutions for previously unsolved or unknown problems. Every day, we push the limits of what is possible through innovation, determination, and teamwork to drive the mission to success.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering.
• Experience rapidly designing electronics products.
• Graduating in the fall of 2025, spring of 2026, or summer of 2026.

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• 2+ 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.
• 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 professional experience testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronics.
• 2+ years of professional experience with fast-paced projects.
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, 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 communication skills both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• Pay range: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00/per year.
• 10% differential for those with an active clearance, up to an additional $15,000 annually.
• Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards.
• Potential discretionary bonuses.
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short & long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree