Electrical Design Engineer, Gateways & Customer Hardware (Starlink) Verified today

About the role

As an Electrical Design Engineer on the Starlink team, you will have complete ownership over the development of millions of customer-facing products and devices shipped directly to end users, including Starlink dishes, user terminals, Wi-Fi routers, and next-generation gateways. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and verification of entire electrical systems for these products, ensuring ground station antenna hardware can withstand harsh environmental conditions while maintaining reliable global communication.

Your customers include teachers in remote Amazon regions, researchers in Antarctica, digital nomads, emergency responders, commercial airlines, cruise lines, and rural or developing area residents.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with 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
• Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
• Work closely with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, test engineering, supply chain, and silicon design teams to deliver integrated, high-performance hardware
• Build physical and digital tools to analyze data collected on orbit and in the lab
• Partner with silicon, software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering to steer hardware from concept development to full-scale production
• Challenge assumptions and find simple solutions to complex problems

What you need

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
• 1+ years of professional experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware

Preferred experience

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar discipline
• 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production, with emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products
• 2+ 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
• 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 highly cross-functional roles

Requirements

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