Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics) Verified today
Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics)
The Starship avionics component development team designs and builds some of the most advanced electronics ever flown in space. You will develop sensors, power and network systems, propulsion interfaces, and data acquisition for Starship and Super Heavy at a pace and cost previously considered impossible in the space industry.
What you will do
- Rapidly develop high-reliability avionics components for Starship and Super Heavy
- Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test
- Develop analog and digital circuits from first principles to meet design requirements in extreme environments
- Design acceptance and qualification testing campaigns and exercise designs to their limit
- Support hardware through production, integration, and flight
- Work with experts from other teams (EEE, EMI, radiation, production) and departments (propulsion, structures, GNC) to drive changes that make the system more efficient, manufacturable, and reliable
- Challenge assumptions and build strong professional relationships
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or mechanical engineering
- 1+ years of experience designing, building, or testing circuit boards or other electronics (personal projects, research, internships, and extracurricular academic projects qualify)
Preferred skills and experience
- Passion for spaceflight and curiosity for electronics in high-reliability applications
- Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper, and more reliable
- Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources
- Experience developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware
- Analog circuit design, analog signal chains, sensor signal conditioning, or hardware filter design
- Ethernet (including single-pair), network switches, microcontrollers, FPGAs, memory chips, or general networking concepts
- Switching power converters, power magnetics, motor inverters, input filters, or EMI/EMC compliance
- Digital signal processing, analog control loops, or control loop stability
- Circuit board layout, especially for switching power converters or high-speed digital applications where signal integrity is critical
- High voltage systems, lithium-ion batteries, solid state load switches, or power distribution optimization
- Circuit board design-for-manufacture and productization of electronics
- Automating hardware development functions (scripting to control benchtop equipment or to accelerate analysis or simulation)
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Additional requirements
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required to support critical projects and mission milestones
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, 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