Electrical Design Engineer, User Products; Starshield

Electrical Design Engineer, User Products (Starshield)

Hawthorne, CA

Space

X 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 Space

X is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Starshield leverages Space

X’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. The User Products team within Starshield furthers these efforts by putting modern communications technology into the hands of government end users, giving them access to high speed and low latency data anywhere in the world. The User Products team is looking to hire an electrical design engineer to work with a brilliant and passionate team of engineers.

In this role you will own conceptualization, design, qualification, and integration of Starshield’s custom hardware that is used in the toughest environments around the world. This role demands strong technical, design, and analysis skills, the drive to get your work over the finish line, and close coordination with mechanical engineers to realize high-reliability and high-performance products.

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our satellites.
• 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.
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) to deliver tightly integrated, high‑performance hardware.
• Drive continual improvements to our designs by building physical and digital tools to analyze data collected in the field and in the lab.
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems.
• Own hardware from conceptual design through volume production and real‑world operations to support customers’ needs.
• Rapidly iterate on designs and analysis to inform high‑level system trades and steer overall product direction.
• Perform performance testing on hardware to validate analysis and demonstrate compliance with design criteria.
• Demonstrate extreme ownership of product outcomes at every stage of development and production.

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or STEM discipline.
• 1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware (internship and extracurricular experience are applicable).

• 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life‑cycle development of new hardware products.
• 2+ 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.
• 2+ 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.
• Demonstrated ability to own hardware or systems within an integrated engineering team outside a classroom setting.
• Self‑motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

• An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive Space
  
  X missions; if so, you will be subject to pre‑employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing.

Pay range:
Electrical Hardware Design Engineer/Level I: $ – $ per year
Electrical Hardware Design Engineer/Level II: $ – $ per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case‑by‑case basis and may vary based on job‑related knowledge and…