Sr. Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware; Starlink

Sr. Hardware Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink)

Bastrop, TX

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.

Starlink believes in providing fast, reliable internet to serve populations with little or no connectivity. We design, build, launch, and operate the world's largest constellation of satellites, enabling us to operate a global internet network unbounded by traditional ground infrastructure limitations. Starlink also designs, builds, and delivers high-volume consumer hardware that allows users to connect to these satellites within minutes of unboxing, as well as our advanced gateways that we deploy regionally throughout the world.

As a Sr. Hardware Engineer on the Starlink team, you will have complete ownership over the development of millions of customer-facing products and devices that we ship directly to end users. You will interact regularly with partner teams including silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing to steer this hardware from initial concept development to full-scale production.

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and production test teams
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test of complex electrical designs
• Get hands‑on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
• Drive continual improvements to our designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or another engineering discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware

• 8+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 8+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; emphasis on full life‑cycle development rather than small incremental updates to legacy hardware
• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed‑signal circuit boards, 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
• 8+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross‑functional role

• Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission critical deadlines
• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.

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