Hardware Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
• At least 1 year of experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware; internships and co-ops may count.
• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission-critical deadlines.
• Must meet U.S. government export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be 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 field.
• At least 2 years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• At least 2 years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production, particularly full lifecycle development of new hardware products rather than incremental updates to legacy hardware.
• At least 2 years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DRAM interfaces such as DDR4, I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, and power supply components.
• At least 2 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 2 years of experience working on aerospace systems.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

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 of complex electrical designs.
• Support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight.
• Work with engineers across adjacent disciplines, including mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, and silicon design, to deliver integrated, high-performance hardware.
• Challenge assumptions and requirements, learn from mistakes, and approach problems with an open mind.

Benefits

• Potential eligibility for company stock or long-term cash awards.
• Potential discretionary bonuses.
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical coverage.
• Vision coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Various other discounts and perks.
• Accrual of 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Washington State paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.
• Company shuttles for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office, Monday to Friday.