Electrical Hardware Development Engineer, Payload (Starlink) at SpaceX
Redmond, WA, United States
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.
ELECTRICAL HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, PAYLOAD (STARLINK)
Starlink is SpaceX's ambitious program to bring high quality internet to the globe by building a constellation of thousands of satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) which we will start launching on our Falcon 9 reusable rockets this year. As a hardware development electrical engineer on the team, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and verification of the electrical hardware for the satellites and ground communication systems.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide engineering expertise in the area of design, development and test of space hardened avionics hardware
Duties include subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification, and signal characterization
Support through production and test
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
1+ years of professional or internship experience in analog, digital or mixed-signal design principles including designs using sensors, operational amplifiers, A/D and D/A converters, and/or filters
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Master's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
2+ years of professional experience with engineering projects in any one or more of the following areas: CPU/FPGA/ASIC circuit boards, consumer electronics, wireless devices, high speed interfaces, and/or low power platforms
2+ years of experience with designing and implementing of analog, digital or mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using operational amplifiers, filters, and transistors, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, power supply components, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), CAN, I2C, Ethernet, SPI, FPGAs, ASICs, and processors
2+ years of experience with testing/troubleshooting/qualification techniques, signal integrity, layout and grounding principles
2+ years of experience with DFx (EMC, EMI, reliability, manufacturability, test, etc.)
Strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware systems - not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
Strong understanding of computers, programming languages, scripting tools and automation (C/C++, Python, MATLAB, assembly language, Perl, etc.)
Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight
Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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