Sr. Electrical Hardware Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

SpaceX • Bastrop, TX

6h • Onsite

About The Position

SpaceX is developing Starmind, a satellite constellation designed to capture solar energy in space and power low-cost, high-performance AI compute for Earth. The Starmind team develops the orbital compute fabric, including custom compute electronics, memory, networking, flight computers, and power systems. As a Senior Electrical Design Engineer on the Starmind Payload Engineering team, you will own the hardware life cycle for systems enabling on-orbit AI processing and data-center workloads. The work spans electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software engineering, with a focus on compute electronics, memory, and networking.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
• At least 5 years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
• Ability to work onsite in the Austin-Bastrop area; relocation is required if not already local, and remote or hybrid work is not considered.
• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission-critical deadlines.
• Must meet ITAR eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. lawful permanent resident, a refugee, an asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a similar engineering discipline.
• At least 7 years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
• At least 7 years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• At least 7 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.
• At least 7 years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DDR4 interfaces, I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, and power-supply components.
• At least 7 years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages such as Python and C/C++.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.
• At least 7 years of experience working on aerospace systems.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, testing, and on-orbit performance for complex electrical designs.
• Provide hands-on support for hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
• Determine PCB layer stackups; select component packages and placements; perform routing feasibility studies; and route digital, analog, RF, and power-conversion signals.
• Create and maintain component libraries.
• Create and release PCB fabrication documentation.
• Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to improve design rules, constraints, and design-for-test and design-for-manufacture guidelines.
• Work with engineers in mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, and other disciplines to deliver integrated, high-performance hardware.
• Challenge assumptions and requirements, learn from mistakes, and approach problems with an open mind.

What This Job Offers

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