Sr. Electrical Design Engineer (Starshield)Active$205K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering

  • + years of professional experience designing electronics products

  • Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree

What they're looking for

  • + years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
  • + 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
  • + 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
  • + years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronics